> > Hi, > > As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/ > interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it. > > The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories > of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a > find unstable contrib non-free -name '*.deb' -follow > > The problem is that the same file is now listed under its real name > (.../binary-i386/foo/bar.deb), and under the symlinks > (.../binary/foo/bar.deb). > However, I cannot remove the '-follow' since 'unstable' is itself a symlink > (currently to 'rex'), and would not be processed without it. > > The 'ls' documentation mentions a '--dereference' switch, which could be > used to do something like > find `ls --dereference unstable contrib non-free` -name '*.deb' > but this switch doesn't appear to work. > > How do I get a list of '*.deb' under all of unstable, contrib and non-free, > without getting duplicates because of symlinks? > > Ray
[Klippa, klapp, kluppit] How about trying "find unstable/* contrib/* non-free/* -name '*.deb'", or something similar? Follow you, follow me, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]