When find can't find

If you happen to be using gnu find in the deadly combination with a directory that is a symlink (you just don’t know that yet), you will find face the hard truth that running:

find /path/to/directory -type f

Will return zero, nada , nichts, meiyou , which is annoying.

this will make you question your life decisions, and your knowledge on tools that you use daily, only to find out that the directory is actually a symlink :).

So next time you find yourself using find and it returns nothing, but you are sure that your syntax is correct and get no errors, try adding the --fowllow or use the -L

find -L /path/to/directory/with/symlink -type f

This will do what you want :)