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Re: [Findutils-patches] speed up gnulib updates


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: [Findutils-patches] speed up gnulib updates
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:33:45 +0100

On 6/28/07, James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:

> Also, 'man find' is a bit misleading.  Under -L, it states "Using -L
> causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return
> false."  But in reality, -lname is correct in documenting that "If
> the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, this test returns
> false unless the symbolic link is broken."  Hence a very easy
> way to find and nuke leftover broken symlinks.


That's a documentation bug.

Meaning, we should fix the first thing (he -L description)

James.




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