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Old 10-13-2011
How to bin/find w/ -follow without searching both link and target
I am interested in searching links to files not found within a directory, so I use the -follow option. However, the dir may contain links to files that are also found within the dir. That means if I bin/find a bunch of files then search their contents using grep, I get redundant information. An easy way to ignore links to files that are found in the same tree that I'm searching? Thanks in advance.
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Old 10-14-2011
try this one...
Code:
find -follow -ls | sort -nk1 -u

Last edited by Franklin52; 10-14-2011 at 03:38 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
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