Hi, As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it.
The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.deb' -follow The problem is that the same file is now listed under its real name (.../binary-i386/foo/bar.deb), and under the symlinks (.../binary/foo/bar.deb). However, I cannot remove the '-follow' since 'unstable' is itself a symlink (currently to 'rex'), and would not be processed without it. The 'ls' documentation mentions a '--dereference' switch, which could be used to do something like find `ls --dereference unstable contrib non-free` -name '*.deb' but this switch doesn't appear to work. How do I get a list of '*.deb' under all of unstable, contrib and non-free, without getting duplicates because of symlinks? Ray -- ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old. I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking his name in vain. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]