From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 19 04:28:49 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA29752 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:28:49 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA29746 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:28:46 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA29521; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:27:29 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508191127.EAA29521@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Broken find?? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:27:29 -0700 (PDT) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4650.808829464@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 95 03:51:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 906 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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 > > Oh yuck. That's mutant! OK, I withdraw my "bug report". Thanks! And the old form primary of -xdev still works, and is even in the manual page, finally found it down in the bottom crap. > > (where the -print is obsolescent in 4.4BSD, if you are a lazy type > > [and i know you are :)]). > > Hey! I'd get upset about that, but it's too much work.. :-) :-). I always hated the fact that -print was required, makes the default action of find pretty usless except for a good disk drive test program :-). -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD