# Re: Find.find() doesn't work with broken symlinks

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-find-find-doesnt-work-with-broken-symlinks/90238>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [March 27, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-find-find-doesnt-work-with-broken-symlinks/90238 "2007-03-27T00:02:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![rlorimor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/96bed5/32.png) [@rlorimor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rlorimor)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-find-find-doesnt-work-with-broken-symlinks/90238/1 "2007-03-27T00:02:13Z")

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I am using ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i686-darwin8.8.1]. I  
will do more testing tonight. The broken symlinks pointed to network  
mounts.

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From: Stefano C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![rlorimor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/96bed5/32.png) [@rlorimor](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rlorimor)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-find-find-doesnt-work-with-broken-symlinks/90238/2 "2007-03-27T01:34:23Z")

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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> I am using ruby 1.8.5 (2006-12-25 patchlevel 12) [i686-darwin8.8.1]. I will  
> do more testing tonight. The broken symlinks pointed to network mounts.

gem install alib

alib.util.find(srcpath) do |path|

```
 # ...

```

end

it follows symlinks.

-a