Automator can't find Symbolic Links? I'm trying to create an automator workflow that starts out by finding all symbolic links in a given directory.

What's happening however is that even if I set it to return "all files", I end up with every single file except symbolic links.  Automator seems to be unable to see them at all.

Is there a way to get Automator to return symlinks (not aliases)?
I'm unable to reproduce this. Automator seems to returns all files/folders, whether they are symlinks or not.


I set up the following:

$ mkcd testfolder
$ mkdir originalfolder
$ ln -s originalfolder symlinkoforiginal
$ ls
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   5 grgarside  staff   170B 23 Jul 20:04 ./
drwx------@ 11 grgarside  staff   374B 23 Jul 20:04 ../
-rw-r--r--@  1 grgarside  staff   6.0K 23 Jul 20:04 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   2 grgarside  staff    68B 23 Jul 20:04 originalfolder/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 grgarside  staff    50B 23 Jul 20:04 symlinkoforiginal -&gt; /Users/grgarside/Desktop/testfolder/originalfolder

I ran the following Automator workflow:




As shown in the results, both the folder and the symlink were returned.