Symlink'ed current directory and FIND

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Wed Nov 15 06:59:00 GMT 2000


--- Paul  Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it 
> > to.  The command
> >   find -follow -type f
> > would display the files you want displayed.
> 
> The way that Cygwin handles CWD=='.' when '.' is a symlink seems to be
> different from Solaris, Linux and IRIS. I tried both NFS and local
> disks.
> 

What does POSIX have to say about it?  How about ANSI?  What about the Single
UNIX Specification?

If you can't find specific documentation then any behaviour is correct.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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