From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 20 16:37:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28866 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 16:37:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (root@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28859 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 16:37:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from campa.panke.de (anonymous231.ppp.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.231]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA16067; Tue, 21 May 1996 01:30:02 +0200 Received: (from wosch@localhost) by campa.panke.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id AAA12049; Tue, 21 May 1996 00:23:11 +0200 Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 00:23:11 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Message-Id: <199605202223.AAA12049@campa.panke.de> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: catman In-Reply-To: <2046.832597511@time.cdrom.com> References: <199605200641.IAA04667@uriah.heep.sax.de> <2046.832597511@time.cdrom.com> Reply-to: Wolfram Schneider MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard writes: >> (No need for grep here. The -print is optional, but _only_ for BSD.) > >Or any machine using GNU find, which includes the Linux boxes. BTW, BSD find require file(s) as argument, GNU find use '.' if no files given. So the manpage and usage string are wrong $ man find find [-H | -L | -P] [-Xdx] [-f file] [file ...] expression $ find usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-Xdx] [-f file] [file ...] [expression] should be: find [-H | -L | -P] [-Xdx] [-f file] file ... [expression] Wolfram