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Re: Cygwin 'find' does not support the '-L' predicate?
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:23:10AM -0400, Lee Rothstein wrote:
>Eric Blake wrote:
>> 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 "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable
>>>
>>> Or, is this pilot error?
>>
>> Pilot error. -L works just fine.
>I got the terminiology all wrong but find on my system does not allow -L
>
>Here what works:
>
> # '-follow' is supposed to be deprecated, but the replacement
> # '-L' specified in 'man' and 'info' pages does not appear to
> # exist in Cygwin 'find' version 4.5.4
> find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -follow -executable | gawk '
>
>If I replace '-follow' with '-L' it tells me :
>
>find: unknown predicate `-L'
That's because, as the man page says, the -L has to come first. You
can't replace the -follow with -L. It has to be:
find -L "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 ...
cgf
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