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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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