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Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> '-type f' will miss things symlinked into the directory. This is
> particularly bad on Debian, which uses symlinks to drive the
> alternatives system, meaning that more binaries than you might expect
> would suddenly not show up.
Precisely. The '\! -type d' was added because the find-pipeline
skipped quite a number of binaries which the proglist() function was
reporting.
> find -L `echo "$PATH" | tr ':' ' ' ` -perm -u+x -type f -print | sed 's,^.*/,,' | sort -u
>
> Only one find run, against all the paths at once... find is specified to
Cool! I hadn't known find could be given multiple paths. Thanks for
the tip (it's been too long since I've RTFM). :-)
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