[Linux-disciples] Following symlinks in 'find'

Adam Rosi-Kessel adam at rosi-kessel.org
Thu Oct 27 12:44:29 EDT 2005


What about chdiring into the directory you want, running find on ., and then
 prepending the output of `pwd`? That should be a UNIX-agnostic way to
accomplish the goal.

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:11:11PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
>> Well, if you do your find from /, doesn't that give you absolute paths?
> 
> I don't really want to run it from /; I need the script to
> run fairly quickly, and all I want to find are the scripts
> in /etc/init.d that are invoked from /etc/rc[0-9].d.
> 
>> There may also be a formatting directive that does it--check the find info
>> page under printf ---> formatting directives.
> 
> Will do. Thanks for helping me.


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