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- From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
- Subject: Re: "find" problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.091914.350@ericsson.se>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:19:14 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.054354.9170@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw>
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- Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
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- In article <1992Nov9.054354.9170@ccds3.ntu.edu.tw>,
- r0506048@csman.csie.ntu.edu.tw (Chun-Hung Lin) writes:
- |> Hello,
- |>
- |> I found that the UNIX command "find" cannot find the file
- |> across the file system, i.e. I cannot find the file on file
- |> system B when I am now on file system A. Is it true?
- |> If it is true, how can I do this job? Any utility or command
- |> is available?
-
- This is definitely not true, in fact there is a switch to turn off this
- facility (at least there is under SunOS 4.1.1). You have probably tried
- to follow a symbolic link, find unfortunately doesn't follow symbolic
- links, I guess that it is too difficult to determine when one is in a
- loop. The only alternative to find that I know of is perl. There is a
- find to perl script that take a find command and converts it to perl,
- you then have a much more powerful environment to work with.
-
- --
-
- Michael Salmon
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