Re: find and symlinks question

[Martin Stromberg]

 
 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?



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Re: find and symlinks question

[J.H.M.Dassen]

[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
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