Pascal <patate...@gmail.com> writes:
> how find links and exec command on pointed files ?
>
> $ touch a
> $ ln -s a b
> $ ll
> a
> b -> a
> $ find -H . -type l -exec md5sum '{}' \;
> d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./b
>
> md5sum is running on "./b" and not on "./a" like excepted :-(

But that is the behavior expected running md5sum on "./b"!

$ touch a
$ ln -s a b
$ ll
total 248
drwxr-xr-x.  2 worley worley   4096 Jul 22 14:37 .
drwxr-xr-x. 53 worley worley 245760 Jul 22 14:37 ..
-rw-r--r--.  1 worley worley      0 Jul 22 14:37 a
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 worley worley      1 Jul 22 14:37 b -> a
$ find -H . -type l -exec md5sum '{}' \;
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./b
$ find -H . -type l -exec echo md5sum '{}' \;
md5sum ./b
$ md5sum ./b
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  ./b
$ 

Dale

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