I got the terminology all mixed up, but the bottom line is:
# '-follow' is supposed to be deprecated, but the replacement # '-L' specified in 'man' and 'info' pages does not appear to # exist in Cygwin 'find' version 4.5.4 find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -follow -executable | gawk ' Lee Rothstein wrote:
Apparently there are these thingies (special type of options) called predicates in 'find' that are specified before a path that tell it to follow or not follow links, etc. I think I need the '-L' predicate that says follow them thar links. However, the following command line works until I add the '-L' predicate. The following works: find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable but does not find executable files that are links The following, which I assume (according to man and info) will find executables that are links, does not work at all: find -L "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable Or, is this pilot error? Lee -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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