Should find traverse symbolic links?

[George Robbins]

In article <1991Feb25.130613.2553 at phri.nyu.edu> roy at alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
> 
> 	I was surprised to observe today that if you do "find dir ..." and
> dir is a symbolic link to a directory, the directory isn't entered.  Thus:
> 
> 	This seems to me to be The Wrong Thing.  Is it a bug in find, or
> was it really intended to work that way?

It seems questionable but I'd think there'd be a lot more problems if
if did follow links - symlink loops lurk everywhere, not to mention
links in user modifiable directories pointing into system stuff to
trap the unwary root.

For the initial case of the argument being a symlink, you can probably
use the "find /link/" trailing slash kludge, as long as you expect it's
going to be a link to a directory or a directory..

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