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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Find command not searching recursively Post 302819385 by alister on Monday 10th of June 2013 04:55:47 PM
Old 06-10-2013
The proper solution is to ignore me.

I was quoting the GNU find manual above and had not realized that you were on HP-UX.

I am not familiar with HP-UX, but a manual page that I found online indicates support for -follow and no support for -L (which I believe was added to POSIX in the 2004 edition).

Further, the HP-UX manual does not seem to contradict itself. From find - HP-UX :
Quote:

-follow

A position-independent term which causes find
to follow symbolic links. When following
symbolic links, find keeps track of the
directories visited so that it can detect
infinite loops; for example, such a loop would
occur if a symbolic link pointed to an
ancestor. This expression should not be used
with the -type l expression. Always true.
I apologize for creating confusion. Revel in your -follow glory.

Regards,
Alister
 

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LEARN ABOUT HPUX

symlink

symlink(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							symlink(4)

NAME

       symlink - symbolic link

DESCRIPTION

       A symbolic (or soft ) link is a file whose name indirectly refers (points) to a relative or absolute path name.

       During  path  name  interpretation,  a symbolic link to a relative path name is expanded to the path name being interpreted, and a symbolic
       link to an absolute path name is replaced with the path name being interpreted.

       Thus, given the path name

	      If is a symbolic link to a relative path name such as the path name is interpreted as

	      If is a symbolic link to an absolute path name such as the path name is interpreted as

       All symbolic links are interpreted in this manner, with one exception: when the symbolic link is the last component of a path name,  it	is
       passed  as  a  parameter  to  one of the system calls: or (see readlink(2), rename(2), symlink(2), unlink(2), chown(2) and lstat(2)).  With
       these calls, the symbolic link, itself, is accessed or affected.

       Unlike normal (hard) links, a symbolic link can refer to any arbitrary path name and can span different logical devices (volumes).

       The path name can be that of any type of file (including a directory or another symbolic link), and may be invalid if no such  path  exists
       in  the	system.   (It is possible to make symbolic links point to themselves or other symbolic links in such a way that they form a closed
       loop.  The system detects this situation by limiting the number of symbolic links it traverses while translating a path name.)

       The mode and ownership of a symbolic link is ignored by the system, which means that affects the actual file, but not the  file	containing
       the symbolic link (see chmod(1)).

       Symbolic links can be created using or (see ln(1) and symlink(2)).

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.

SEE ALSO

       cp(1), symlink(2), readlink(2), link(2), stat(2), mknod(1M).

																	symlink(4)
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