Timeline for What is the difference between "find -H" and "find -L" command?
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| May 30, 2019 at 12:48 | history | reopened | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' peterh Stephen Kitt Sparhawk Jeff Schaller♦ | ||
| May 30, 2019 at 12:48 | history | edited | Jeff Schaller♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 | imported the title question into the body |
| May 29, 2019 at 20:15 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| May 29, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … TL;DR — The question is perfectly clear. The OP read the man page, and it was not helpful (enough). Googling the title of the question doesn’t yield anything that addresses the question other than the man page. The question should be reopened. (And maybe upvoted, for being a concise, seemingly simple inquiry that elicited a non-simple, non-trivial, non-obvious answer that isn’t wallpapered all over the Internet, and because it has been unfairly downvoted.) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … The OP says “I created a soft link and a hard link for a file but still both commands gave the same output.” That’s the one thing that they mention in the question that they tried. Do you really believe that they jumped directly to that experiment without reading the man page? Obviously they read the man page. As I said in my answer, man pages are hard to understand. I know find like the back of my hand — I’ve been using it since before symbolic links even existed — and even I had to read the man page multiple times before I was able to write my answer. … (Cont’d) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 19:54 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … So you try to discover what they all mean by experimenting. If you create file1, and then file2, and then file3, you’re going to have a hard time discovering that -r and -t do different things. If you don’t know what . and .. are, you’re in for a surprise. If you don’t know the lore of “dot-files”, it’s going to take you while to figure out -A. … … … … How long is it going to take you to figure out -H and -L? How long is it going to take you to think of creating symbolic links and seeing how ls treats them when you specify different options? … (Cont’d) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … (2) aCVn doesn’t exactly say “RTFM”, but they come close. Well, imagine that you’re just learning Unix / Linux. You have a basic knowledge of some basic commands (e.g., cat / more / less, an editor, cp, ln, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, maybe chmod, etc.) and somebody tells you that ls is the command to list files and directories, and that almost every letter in the alphabet is a valid option to ls — but they don’t tell you any details, and you don’t have access to any relevant documentation. … (Cont’d) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | (Cont’d) … In other words, «I do “find -H” and “find -L” and I get identical results. When do they ever do anything different?» Trivially, “find -H” and “find -L” will produce identical results in an empty directory, as will (for example) ls, ls -A, ls -b, ls -c, ls -C, ls -F, ls -G, ls -i, ls -m, ls -q, ls -r, ls -t and about a dozen others — including (spoiler alert) ls -H and ls -L. The trick — the challenge — what the question asks — is how to create a minimal working example that demonstrates that the options do, in fact, do different things. … (Cont’d) | |
| May 29, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | I believe that this question should never have been closed, and (at the risk of ruffling some feathers) that the people who voted to close it might not have fully grokked it. (1) @aCVn says “Please edit your question to show us a minimal working example that demonstrates the problem.” The next clause, “It should be possible to run from an empty directory …”, is the height of either irony or sarcastic snarkiness. The question literally, explicitly asks «What is the difference between “find -H” and “find -L” …?» … (Cont’d) | |
| May 27, 2019 at 10:38 | vote | accept | cw16 | ||
| Sep 5, 2016 at 9:18 | history | closed | Jeff Schaller♦ Julie Pelletier Archemar Nidal Bananguin | Needs details or clarity | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 3:37 | answer | added | G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica' | timeline score: 8 | |
| Sep 5, 2016 at 1:52 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 22:12 | history | edited | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | edited tags | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 11:12 | comment | added | user | Please edit your question to show us a minimal working example that demonstrates the problem. (It should be possible to run from an empty directory and illustrate what you are finding confusing.) Also, what research have you done in order to answer this yourself? At least on my system, the man page for find describes -P, -L and -H very nearly at the top. Your question is receiving downvotes because it doesn't contain the information necessary to provide a good answer nor any evidence of effort in trying to find the answer yourself before asking others. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 9:01 | review | First posts | |||
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 8:56 | history | asked | cw16 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |