Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:55:23 +0000 Message-ID: <883-Fri17Nov2000135523+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: emacs 20.7.1 (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.7.1 From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND In-Reply-To: <20001115111109.B7893@redhat.com> References: <20001115152828.13322.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> <20001115111109.B7893@redhat.com> On Wednesday 15 Nov 00, Christopher Faylor writes: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 07:28:28AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >Since the directory is a symbolic link then the leaf (i.e.: the '.' directory) > >is a symbolic link. Therefore find doesn't dereference it and reports nothing > >unless you tell it to -follow the symbolic link. > > This is probably different than most, if not all, UNIXes. There is already a 'find' entry in the FAQ, I'll add something about this. Cheers, David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com