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From: drears@pica.army.mil (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re:  find command
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Date: 28 Nov 89 14:32:47 GMT
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Mike:

   You write:

>I was reading an article in a magazine, and the article was talking
>about the
>find command. It mentioned as an example:       find / -depth -print
>
>Now I have RTFM (both on BSD-based systems and SysV-based system) and
>I can fi!
>no option -depth, furthermore, when I try the example I get:
>find: bad option < -depth >
>
>What does this option mean ?


  From the SUNOS manual pages:

     -depth    Always true; performs  descent  of  the  directory
               hierarchy  so  that all entries in a directory are
               acted on before the directory itself.  This can be
               useful  when find is used with cpio(1) to transfer
               files that are contained  in  directories  without
               write permission.

Dennis

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