Problem with recursive searches.

[Bruce Dawson]

On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 15:33, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> Michael ODonnell wrote:
> 
> >I suspect find's symlink dereferencing behavior, so here's a
> >shot in the dark: try toggling your dereference option, ie.
> >if you're telling find to dereference symlinks, try the same
> >search but don't dereference.  If you aren't, then do so...
> >
> Kudos.  "find -follow" works like a charm.  Except:
> 
> I'm just kind of puzzled; the directory has no symlinks (or links of any 
> other type) in it.  Nor does /.  Any idea why de-referencing symlinks -- 
> that, as far as I can tell, it hasn't looked at -- would cause this?  Is 
> this a filesystem issue, perhaps?  (I'm using XFS, but I've used it 
> before without issue.)

Most likely you cd'ed through a symlink - or your pwd has a symlinked
directory in it.
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