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coreutils: Traversing symlinks

 
 2.10 Traversing symlinks
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 The following options modify how ‘chown’ and ‘chgrp’ traverse a
 hierarchy when the ‘--recursive’ (‘-R’) option is also specified.  If
 more than one of the following options is specified, only the final one
 takes effect.  These options specify whether processing a symbolic link
 to a directory entails operating on just the symbolic link or on all
 files in the hierarchy rooted at that directory.
 
    These options are independent of ‘--dereference’ and
 ‘--no-dereference’ (‘-h’), which control whether to modify a symlink or
 its referent.
 
 ‘-H’
      If ‘--recursive’ (‘-R’) is specified and a command line argument is
      a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it.
 
 ‘-L’
      In a recursive traversal, traverse every symbolic link to a
      directory that is encountered.
 
 ‘-P’
      Do not traverse any symbolic links.  This is the default if none of
      ‘-H’, ‘-L’, or ‘-P’ is specified.
 

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