Why don't find and locate search /bin? What gives? Normal `find` and `locate` commands don't turn up the verify program that lives at `/bin/verify`. In fact, it seems they don't turn up anything that lives in `/bin` [jake@jace]/bin% "find" /bin/ -iname "verify" 2>/dev/null /bin/verify [jake@jace]/bin% "find" /bin -iname "verify" 2>/dev/null [jake@jace]/bin% "find" / -iname "verify" 2>/dev/null /home/jake/android/cts/tools/vm-tests-tf/src/dot/junit/verify /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FortranCInterface/Verify /usr/bin/verify . [jake@jace]/bin% locate "verify" | grep "bin" /usr/bin/db_log_verify /usr/bin/db_verify /usr/bin/fprintd-verify /usr/bin/json_verify /usr/bin/ldns-verify-zone /usr/bin/rpmverify /usr/bin/verify /usr/bin/verifytree . [jake@jace]/bin% "ls" -lh /bin/verify -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 32K May 22 2012 /bin/verify

Gah.


[jake@jace]/bin% ls -lhd /bin
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 7 May 22 2012 /bin -> usr/bin/


I'm running Fedora 17. Apparently `/bin` is symlinked to `/usr/bin`. And of course (and quite rightly) `find` and `locate` ignore symlinked directories to avoid result pollution.