diff --git a/Shellish.hs b/Shellish.hs
--- a/Shellish.hs
+++ b/Shellish.hs
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
          , echo, echo_n, echo_err, echo_n_err
 
          -- * Querying filesystem.
-         , ls, test_e, test_f, test_d, which, find
+         , ls, test_e, test_f, test_d, test_s, which, find
 
          -- * Manipulating filesystem.
          , mv, rm_f, rm_rf, cp, cp_r, mkdir, mkdir_p
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 import Data.Maybe
 import System.IO hiding ( readFile )
 import System.IO.Strict( readFile )
+import System.PosixCompat.Files( getSymbolicLinkStatus, isSymbolicLink )
 import System.Directory
 import System.Exit
 import System.FilePath
@@ -114,8 +115,9 @@
 find dir = do bits <- ls dir
               sub <- forM bits $ \x -> do
                 ex <- test_d $ dir </> x
-                if ex then find (dir </> x)
-                      else return []
+                sym <- test_s $ dir </> x
+                if ex && not sym then find (dir </> x)
+                                 else return []
               return $ map (dir </>) bits ++ concat sub
 
 -- | Obtain the current (ShIO) working directory.
@@ -170,6 +172,12 @@
 -- | Does a path point to an existing directory?
 test_d :: FilePath -> ShIO Bool
 test_d = path >=> liftIO . doesDirectoryExist
+
+-- | Does a path point to a symlink?
+test_s :: FilePath -> ShIO Bool
+test_s = path >=> liftIO . \f -> do
+  stat <- getSymbolicLinkStatus f
+  return $ isSymbolicLink stat
 
 -- | A swiss army cannon for removing things. Actually this goes farther than a
 -- normal rm -rf, as it will circumvent permission problems for the files we
diff --git a/shellish.cabal b/shellish.cabal
--- a/shellish.cabal
+++ b/shellish.cabal
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 -- The package version. See the Haskell package versioning policy
 -- (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy) for
 -- standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
-Version:             0.1
+Version:             0.1.1
 
 Synopsis:    shell-/perl- like (systems) programming in Haskell
 
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@
   -- Modules exported by the library.
   Exposed-modules:     Shellish
 
-  Build-depends: mtl, process, filepath, bytestring, base >= 4 && < 5, time, directory, strict
+  Build-depends: mtl, process, filepath, bytestring, base >= 4 && < 5, time, directory, strict,
+                 unix-compat
 
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   type:     darcs