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Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:50:01 -0400
From: Lee Rothstein <lee AT veritech DOT com>
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Subject: Cygwin 'find' does not support the '-L' predicate?
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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

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