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Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? [message #71457 is a reply to message #71376]

Fri, 18 June 2010 05:06

Heinz Stege
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Registered: January 2003

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On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:37:23 -0700 (PDT), Maarten wrote:

> On Jun 18, 4:13 am, nata <bernat.puigdomen...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Heinz,
>>
>> Thank you for your reply.
>> My problem is using symlinks in Linux and trying to do the recursive
>> search through them.
>
> This is documented in the file_search help. To avoid infinite loops,
> file_search will not search within symlinks to directories.
>
Yes, I was too careless last night. In reading manuals ;-( and in
performing tests. This morning I put a file into the folder, which is
the target of a symbolic link. Corresponding to the manual file_search
does not see this file (in the symbolic link). It does not find the
file in both syntaxes, the recursive and the standard one. So the
results on Linux and on Windows are the same. At least for the
recursive search.

By the way cygwin does not to create real symbolic links. It simulates
them by using Windows-shortcuts.

Heinz

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		recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? By: natha on Thu, 17 June 2010 11:28
		Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? By: natha on Fri, 18 June 2010 05:55
		Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? By: Heinz Stege on Fri, 18 June 2010 05:06
		Re: recursive FILE_SEARCH in a symbolic link ? By: Maarten[1] on Fri, 18 June 2010 01:37
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