Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 12:44:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Broken find?? Message-ID: <199508191044.MAA04166@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199508191037.DAA04443@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 95 03:37:08 am
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >From the man page: > > -x The -x option prevents find from descending into directories that > have a device number different than that of the file from which > the descent began. > > 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 :)]). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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