Re: "find" and symlinks question
[my find/symlink problem: find each file _once_ in the FTP directory structure; to remove duplicates from http://www.debian.org/FTP/] Phil> How about: Phil> find unstable/* contrib non-free -name '*.deb' Phil> It won't find hidden files in unstable/, but it doesn't look like you Phil> want to. Martin> How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", Martin> or something similar? Thanks! Although this doesn't appeal to my sense of aesthetics, it does the job. Ray -- Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messages, on a lightspeed mission to explore strange new systems and to boldly go where no data has gone before. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: "find" and symlinks question
> > 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 [Klippa, klapp, kluppit] How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", or something similar? Follow you, follow me, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"find" and symlinks question
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]
