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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 20:51:14 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/find find.1
Message-ID:  <20011008205114.B28725@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpelog74jm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:05:33AM %2B0200
References:  <200110061807.f96I7XO79025@freefall.freebsd.org> <xzpelog74jm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 01:05:33AM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Document -depth
> 
> ...a very poorly named option, because find's default behaviour is
> also, strictly speaking, depth-first traversal.  A more approriate
> name would be -post (and -p instead of -d).
> 
This is because of how ``find /tmp -depth -maxdepth 0'' works.  :-)
Also, this name is in POSIX.


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