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Re: Cygwin 'find' does not support the '-L' predicate?


Christopher Faylor wrote:
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 ...
That doesn't work either.

'-L' for 4.5.4 does not work anywhere on the command line. '-L' is not required (in my application)
if '-follow' works, and it does. However, the man/info page says that '-L' should work, and '-follow'
is deprecated.
cgf

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