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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:28:38 +0800
From: Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: (-) doesn't make (e) working on the files which symbolic links
 point to ?
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:22:53PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Oct 24, 10:14am, Han Pingtian wrote:
> } 
> } Looks like the qualifer "(-)" doesn't make "(e)" works on files pointed
> } by symblic
> 
> The only thing that (-) controls is whether the file attributes are read
> by lstat() or stat().  It does not cause a readlink(); note that even in
> the absence of (e), the names returned by *(@-) are the names of the links
> and not of the files linked-to.
> 

Thanks.

> You want (:A) like so:
> 
>     ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/*(:Ae'.[[ $REPLY = *sda* ]].')

I'm sorry, it doesn't work. The outputs of "*(:Ae'.[[ $REPLY = *sda* ]].')"
is the same as "*(:A)".