From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Earnie Boyd To: "Lassi A. Tuura" Cc: Paul Stodghill , "Cygwin Mailing List \(E-mail\)" Subject: Re: Symlink'ed current directory and FIND Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:28:00 -0000 Message-id: <20001115152828.13322.qmail@web118.yahoomail.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-11/msg00775.html --- "Lassi A. Tuura" wrote: > > Find doesn't dereference symbolic links unless you tell it to. > > Yes, but surely it should follow the links to the *current* directory? 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. Cheers, ===== Earnie Boyd mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com --- < http://earniesystems.safeshopper.com > --- --- Cygwin: POSIX on Windows < http://gw32.freeyellow.com/ > --- --- Minimalist GNU for Windows < http://www.mingw.org/ > --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! http://calendar.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com