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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find command
Message-ID: <11696@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Nov 89 02:01:41 GMT
References: <21544@adm.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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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 ?

-depth is a standard option in the System V version of "find".
It tells "find" to perform a depth-first traversal of the file
hierarchy.  This may be important, for example, if you type
	find . -depth -print | chmod -rwx
since without the -depth it will be impossible to access or
even find the names of files in subdirectories in order to
chmod them.