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Re: ** bug?

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From: chs@xxxxxxxxx (Chip Salzenberg)
To: hari@xxxxxxxxxx (Hariharan Dhandapani)
Subject: Re: ** bug?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:02:20 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <9509191820.AA01104@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Hariharan Dhandapani" at Sep 19, 95 11:20:20 am

According to Hariharan Dhandapani:
> Thanks for all your responses, "***" does work and does what i want it
> to do, however what is the rationale behind differenitating symbolic
> links, why doesn't "**" itself follow symbolic links too ...

Following symlinks is a dangerous policy.  You'll note that "find"
and similar commands usually don't follow symlinks unless they're told
to.  Consider:

  $ mkdir infinite
  $ cd infinite
  $ ln -s .. loop

Now if you follow symlinks, you have infinite/loop/infinite/loop/...
-- 
               Chip Salzenberg, aka <chs@xxxxxxxxx>
        "Hey, it's the Miss Alternate Universe Pageant!"
          -- Crow T. Robot, MST3K: "Stranded In Space"

References:
- Re: ** bug?
  - From: Hariharan Dhandapani

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