Should find traverse symbolic links?

[Brett McCoy]

In <125283 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:

>In article <1991Mar8.152932.5242 at investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp at investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>>Altos' find does traverse symbolic links...

>Altos' find is broken.

My opinion is that there should be a flag much like the -xdev flag that
tells find whether or not to traverse symbolic links.  I have a lot of
symbolic link directories to allow directories to be in the correct place
in the hierarchy, but allows all of the data to be stashed on another
filesystem that has the room.  Not being able to do a find down into
these directories is a pain to say the least.

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