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[bug #51926] -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop


From: James Youngman
Subject: [bug #51926] -xtype l fails on symbolic links that have a loop
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2017 17:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #51926 (project findutils):

Correction: find isn't failing to search the directory, it's just that in
"find -L -xtype l -print" the "-xtype l" test fails for symbolic link loops
(whereas it would succeed for broken symbolic links).

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