Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:54:41 +0800 (HKT) From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat) Subject: Re: OS/2 users going to FreeBSD? :-) Message-ID: <199706190654.OAA00750@papillon.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199706190501.OAA25428@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Jun 19, 97 02:31:28 pm"
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Michael Smith writes: > Joel N. Weber II stands accused of saying: >> >> OTOH, I generally prefer GNU find, since I can do something like >> `find -name foobar' and GNU find will do the equivalent of >> `find . -name foobar -print'. >> >> (I actually took the time to install GNU find in my account on a solaris >> machine because of this...) > > That kinda breaks the argument syntax for find; everything before > the path is an option, everything afterwards is the expression. If > you add the '.', you get the same behaviour as the BSD find. Sure. Remember that the word 'default' originally mean 'fault'. What we're talking about here is just adding a couple of sensible defaults (path list defaults to ., action defaults to -print). I definitely like GNU find; it's one of the first programs I port to new platforms, not because of these features, but because of others, in particular -mmin and friends (like mtime and friends, but in minutes instead of days). Greg
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