Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:31:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel N. Weber II) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706190501.OAA25428@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199706190455.AAA06844@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel N. Weber II" at "Jun 19, 97 00:55:11 am"
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Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying: > > OTOH, I generally prefer GNU find, since I can do something like > `find -name foobar' and GNU find will do the equivalent of > `find . -name foobar -print'. > > (I actually took the time to install GNU find in my account on a solaris > machine because of this...) That kinda breaks the argument syntax for find; everything before the path is an option, everything afterwards is the expression. If you add the '.', you get the same behaviour as the BSD find. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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