The -H, -L and -P options control the treatment of symbolic links.  Command-line arguments fol‐
   lowing these are taken to be names of files or directories to be examined, up to the first  ar‐
   gument that begins with `-', or the argument `(' or `!'.  That argument and any following argu‐
   ments are taken to be the expression describing what is to be searched for.  If  no  paths  are
   given, the current directory is used.  If no expression is given, the expression -print is used
   (but you should probably consider using -print0 instead, anyway).

   This manual page talks about `options' within the expression list.  These options  control  the
   behaviour  of find but are specified immediately after the last path name.  The five `real' op‐
   tions -H, -L, -P, -D and -O must appear before the first path name, if at all.  A  double  dash
   --  can  also  be  used to signal that any remaining arguments are not options (though ensuring
   that all start points begin with either `./' or `/' is generally safer if you use wildcards  in
   the list of start points).

   -P     Never  follow  symbolic  links.   This  is the default behaviour.  When find examines or
          prints information a file, and the file is a symbolic link, the information  used  shall
          be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself.

   -L     Follow symbolic links.

  -H     Do  not follow symbolic links, except while processing the command line arguments.  When
              find examines or prints information about files, the information  used  shall  be  taken
              from  the  properties of the symbolic link itself

       -L     Follow  symbolic  links.   When find examines or prints information about files, the information used
              shall be taken from the properties of the file to which the link points, not  from  the  link  itself
              (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to examine the file to which the link points).
              Use of this option implies -noleaf.  If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will still be in effect.
              If -L is in effect and find discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search, the subdi‐
              rectory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.

              When the -L option is in effect, the -type predicate will always match against the type of  the  file
              that  a  symbolic  link  points  to rather than the link itself (unless the symbolic link is broken).
              Using -L causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return false.