Assuming GNU grep, the --dereference-recursive (-R) option makes it follow symlinks when recursing directories.
See GNU grep 2.18 manual: < http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#index-recursive-search-123 >. Regards, /Emil On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21 May 2014 17:28, Kim Ludvigsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a folder with symbolic links to files in various places. I would > like > > to be able to search in those files. > > > > It works fine using: > > Linux Mint 13 (maya), kernel Linux 3.2.0-23-generic > > Geany: 0.21 > > Caja 1.2.1 > > > > The search in the folder with symbolic link files does not work using: > > Linux Mint 14 (nadia), kernel Linux 3.5.0-17-generic > > Geany 1.22 > > Caja 1.40 > > > > What can I do to make it work at my Linux 14 machine? > > > > I am not a technical minded person, I can use the menu Search => Find in > > Files and enter a search term, I have no idea how to use grep or other > nerdy > > things, thus I am looking for an non-geeky solution, thanks! > > grep appears to not search links when its in recursive mode. This is > the case even if its invoked from the command line. If it is not in > recursive mode it does search links. > > There does not appear to be any solution to this problem, it is inside > grep. > > Cheers > Lex > > > > > > -- > > Kind regards > > Kim Ludvigsen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users >
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