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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.

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