From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 19 04:19:59 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA29428 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:19:59 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA29421 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:19:55 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id EAA29355; Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:18:53 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199508191118.EAA29355@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Broken find?? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 1995 04:18:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508191037.DAA04443@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 19, 95 03:37:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 641 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >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 > > Ack! And just when I needed that option, too! Someone has munged the man page, that use to be ``-xdev'', and I just tested it here, xdev still works so: find . -xdev -print is what you want... -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD