find not consistent with man/info pages? Was: Re: Cygwin 'find' does not support the '-L' predicate?

[Lee D. Rothstein]

I got the terminology all mixed up, but the bottom line is:

    # '-follow' is supposed to be deprecated, but the replacement
    # '-L' specified in 'man' and 'info' pages does not appear to
    # exist in Cygwin 'find' version 4.5.4
    find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -follow -executable | gawk '


Lee Rothstein wrote:
> Apparently there are these thingies (special type of options)
> called predicates in 'find' that are specified before a path that
> tell it to follow or not follow links, etc.
>
> I think I need the '-L' predicate that says follow them thar
> links. However, the following command line works until I add the
> '-L' predicate.
>
> The following works:
>
>  find "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable
>
> but does not find executable files that are links
>
> The following, which I assume (according to man and info) will
> find executables that are links, does not work at all:
>
>  find -L "$PWD" -maxdepth 1 -type f -executable
>
> Or, is this pilot error?
>
> Lee
>
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