From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 18 22:01:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06169 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:01:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA06164 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id OAA25428; Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:31:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199706190501.OAA25428@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) In-Reply-To: <199706190455.AAA06844@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> from "Joel N. Weber II" at "Jun 19, 97 00:55:11 am" To: devnull@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Joel N. Weber II) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:31:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[