GNU find clarifications [was: Re: [ale] bash script]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Sep 11 13:14:17 EDT 2007


On Tue 2007-09-11 12:27:10 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

>  * you can test this command by replacing -delete with -print, if you
>    like.

ah, i should say, replace -delete with -print -depth, since -delete
implies -depth while -print does not.

you shouldn't see any difference (except the ordering), but if your
find instructions get more complicated, you could really get bitten by
this [0].

sorry for not getting that right the first time,

        --dkg

[0] https://www.debian-administration.org/users/Steve/weblog/176#comment_10
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