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Change description of file(1) following symlinks to the truth (namely,

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by default, file(1) does not follow symlinks, the -L flag must be
specified.

PR:		docs/8602
Submitted by:	Kazuo Horikawa <k-horik@yk.rim.or.jp>
Reviewed by:	nik
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Nik Clayton 1999-04-14 18:45:07 +00:00
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@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)symlink.7 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/31/94
.\" $Id: symlink.7,v 1.7 1997/06/19 01:07:05 jdp Exp $
.\" $Id: symlink.7,v 1.8 1998/04/24 12:38:18 des Exp $
.\"
.Dd March 31, 1994
.Dt SYMLINK 7
@ -160,25 +160,7 @@ is included in this rule, while the command
is not.
(The latter is described in the third area, below.)
.Pp
If it is explicitly intended that the command operate on the symbolic
link instead of following the symbolic link, e.g., it is desired that
.Dq Li "file slink"
display the type of file that
.Dq Li slink
is, whether it is a symbolic link or not, the
.Fl h
option should be used.
In the above example,
.Dq Li "file slink"
would report the type of the file referenced by
.Dq Li slink ,
while
.Dq Li "file -h slink"
would report that
.Dq Li slink
was a symbolic link.
.Pp
There are three exceptions to this rule.
There are four exceptions to this rule.
The
.Xr mv 1
and
@ -219,12 +201,23 @@ options affect its behavior even though it is not doing a walk of
a file tree.)
.Pp
The
.Xr file 1
command is also an exception to this rule.
The
.Xr file 1
command does not follow symbolic links named as argument by default.
The
.Xr file 1
command does follow symbolic links named as argument if
.Fl L
option is specified.
.Pp
The
.Bx 4.4
system differs from historical 4BSD systems in that the
.Nm chown ,
.Nm chgrp
.Nm chown
and
.Nm file
.Nm chgrp
commands follow symbolic links specified on the command line.
.Ss Commands traversing a file tree.
The following commands either optionally or always traverse file trees:
@ -302,11 +295,6 @@ For example, the command
.Dq Li "chown -HR user slink"
will traverse the file hierarchy rooted in the file pointed to by
.Dq Li slink .
Note, the
.Fl H
is not the same as the previously discussed
.Fl h
flag.
The
.Fl H
flag causes symbolic links specified on the command line to be