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Finding Files Across Symbolic Links in bash

InfinityCoder February 20, 2017

You issued a find command to find your .mp3 files but it didn’t find all of them—it missed all those that were part of your filesystem but were mounted via a symbolic link.

Is find unable to cross that kind of boundary?

Use the -follow predicate. The example we used before becomes:

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$ find . -follow -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -i -0 mv '{}' ~/songs

Sometimes you don’t want find to cross over onto other filesystems, which is where symbolic links originated.

So the default for find is not to follow a symbolic link.

If you do want it to do so, then use the -follow option as the first option in the list on your find command.

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