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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: Broken find??
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>> 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 :)]).

-xdev is documented as "historical" but still works as a ... `primary'.
I think -print is the default in POSIX.  It is certainly the default in
gnu find too.  The man page has obsolescent examples, all with unnecessary
-print's.

Bruce