From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 19 03:44:59 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id DAA28281 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 03:44:59 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id DAA28274 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 03:44:51 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA21521; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:44:42 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA01266; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:44:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA04166; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:44:05 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508191044.MAA04166@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Broken find?? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:44:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508191037.DAA04443@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 95 03:37:08 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 699 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >From the man page: > > -x The -x option prevents find from descending into directories that > have a device number different than that of the file from which > the descent began. > > root@time-> find . -x -print > find: -x: unknown option Find's pretty :) syntax differentiates clearly between options and (minute... must RTFM first...) `primaries'. So better write: find -x . -print (where the -print is obsolescent in 4.4BSD, if you are a lazy type [and i know you are :)]). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)