i found a script for searching my eBooks collection using rofi. I have been using it for months now. today I moved my eBooks directory and made a symlink to the original place. now the script is not working like before. If i use the new absolute path instead of the symlinked path, the script works. I think the problem is with following the symlink. I very little about bash scripting. i have searched for solving this but couldn’t find any solution. Can anyone help me to fix it and at the same learn something new about shell scripting.
Thanks in advance. 
Hi,
Why do you want to make a symlink ? Just change the path at line 21 to the new path:
BOOKS_DIR=~/.dropbox-personal/Dropbox/My-ebooks
Yeah, the find command only looks for regular files so you could change that so it looks for symlinks as well:
readarray -t F_ARRAY <<< "$(find "$BOOKS_DIR" \( -type l -o -type f \) \( -iname \*.pdf -o -iname \*.epub -o -iname \*.mobi -o -iname \*.azw3 -o -iname \*.azw2 \))"
(Untested)
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I already did this. I just wanted to know what is causing the issue and learn a new thing. so that i can troubleshoot similar issue in the future 
thanks for replying. 
tried your solution, it does not work.
as you pointed out the issue is with the find command, I duck & went a bit and tried this
readarray -t F_ARRAY <<< "$(find -L "$BOOKS_DIR" -type f \( -iname \*.pdf -o -iname \*.epub -o -iname \*.mobi -o -iname \*.azw3 -o -iname \*.azw2 \))"
which solved the issue.
Thanks a lot for pointing me to the right direction. 
Glad you solved it with Head_on_a_Stick put you on tracks
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