QUESTION:
I have a question on symbolic links (ie: /u and /home ). Why is
it that if I cd into /home and issue a find /home -print I see
files, but if I issue a find /u -print I get nothing back ??
If I cd into either directory and issue a ls I see files, but
find doesn't seem to " FIND" anything in /u. Does this have
to do with symbolic links ??
Also how can I distnguish between a symbolic and non-symbolic
link by looking at the file ????
What does the lrwxrwxrwx ( l ) indicate here SYmbolic or non-sym ??
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A: I will answer your questions in the order you asked:
Yes, this does have to do with the symbolic link. The 'find' command
does not jump across this because (I assume this is the intent) it
could become lost in a recursive loop if a file is linked to a parent
directory.
In any case, you need to execute 'find /u/* -print' to pass over the
link.
Symbolicly linked files have the 'l' designation in the first column
of the permission field which you can see by executing the 'ls -la'
command. Non- symbolicly linked files will have the same i-node
number, but will appear normal otherwise (a.k.a. hard-linked files).
You can check the i-nodes numbers with 'ls -li'.
Therefore, "lrwxrwxrwx" is a symbolic link.
Thank you for using ASKQ/EQUAL.
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