> 
> 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?



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