PERL Beginners - Using File::Find to follow symlinks

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Using File::Find to follow symlinks

Adam Rosi-Kessel

2005-08-04, 5:01 pm

I'd like to use File::Find, or some alternative, to follow symlinks;
regardless of whether the file/directory has already been traversed in
some other location. In other words, if there I have directories x and
y, and the file a is in x and symlinked into y, I want the find &wanted
function to be called on file a in both x and y.

Possible? Do I have to write my own find function from scratch? None of
the follow-find=> options seem to accomplish what I want.

I've also noticed that the &wanted function is not called even *once* in
some cases where there are duplicate symlink files (i.e., it is not even
called on the "real" file). Switching from find to finddepth seems to
fix this, but I really don't understand what's going on. Any pointers?
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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org

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