Re: [Mingw-users] find lacks -L option

Earnie Boyd <[email protected]> Tue, 7 May 2013 14:42:29 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.msys
Message-ID <CA+sc5m=ikAGJ685uF1+B9PUqWmJQLoMUoBOujW5KFC6VmyvGxQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote:
> I would like `find` to follow the /c/ (C:\) link, where I keep most of my
> data, but the version of `find` included seems to lack the -L option.
>

/c is not a symlink to C:\ it is a mapping of Windows semantics to
POSIX semantics.  You should be able to use ``find /c ...'' without
needing -L.

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