Re: "find" and symlinks question
>
> Hi,
>
> As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/
> interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it.
>
> The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories
> of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a
> find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.deb' -follow
>
> The problem is that the same file is now listed under its real name
> (.../binary-i386/foo/bar.deb), and under the symlinks (.../binary/foo/bar.deb).
> However, I cannot remove the '-follow' since 'unstable' is itself a symlink
> (currently to 'rex'), and would not be processed without it.
>
> The 'ls' documentation mentions a '--dereference' switch, which could be
> used to do something like
> find `ls --dereference unstable contrib non-free` -name '*.deb'
> but this switch doesn't appear to work.
>
> How do I get a list of '*.deb' under all of unstable, contrib and non-free,
> without getting duplicates because of symlinks?
>
> Ray
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit]
How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", or
something similar?
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MartinS
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