[bug #65349] Wrong statement in -xtype documentation

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                 Summary: Wrong statement in -xtype documentation
                   Group: findutils
               Submitter: None
               Submitted: Fri 23 Feb 2024 05:20:48 PM UTC
                Category: documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
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Date: Fri 23 Feb 2024 05:20:48 PM UTC By: Anonymous
findutils 4.9.0

The docs [1] say that for a symbolic link `-L -xtype X` is false unless the
symbolic link is broken.

This statement seems false: in the following example link-to-inexistent is a
broken symbolic link and is not printed.

$ rm -f inexistent; ln -s inexistent link-to-inexistent; find -L . -xtype f
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 xxx xxx 10 Feb 23 18:01 link-to-inexistent -> inexistent
$ find -version
find (GNU findutils) 4.9.0
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Eric B. Decker, James Youngman, and Kevin Dalley.
Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS(FTS_CWDFD)
CBO(level=2) 
$ 


[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/doc/find.texi#n1217







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