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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find command
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Date: 28 Nov 89 01:15:39 GMT
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In article <21544@adm.BRL.MIL>, mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J.
Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes:
> Now I have RTFM (both on BSD-based systems and SysV-based system) and
I can find
> no option -depth, furthermore, when I try the example I get:
> find: bad option < -depth >
> 
> What does this option mean ?

The -depth option is found on some older versions of find.  It caused
find to try to search deep before searching wide.  As far as I know, it
was never documented, although it sometimes worked.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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