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According to Lee Rothstein on 9/4/2009 9:50 PM:
> 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?

Pilot error.  -L works just fine.  Also, it is shorter to use . than
"$PWD" (for that matter, GNU find has an implicit . if you don't specify a
directory).  I think you're asking the wrong question, though - if what
you really want is to find all symlinks whose targets are executables, try
this:

find -P -maxdepth 1 -type l -xtype f -executable

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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