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From: donlash@uncle.UUCP (Donald Lashomb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find command
Message-ID: <616@uncle.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 03:29:53 GMT
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In article <21544@adm.BRL.MIL> mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) writes:
>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 find
>no option -depth, furthermore, when I try the example I get:
>find: bad option < -depth >
>
>What does this option mean ?

Gee, it's in my manual ( AT&T unix-pc ):

	-depth	Always true.  Must begin the expression. Forces a*depth-first
		search: find does not apply the expression to a directory
		until it has applied the expression to all the files in the
		directory.  This is useful with cpio; see example in cpio(1).
		If the example were done without -depth, the modification
		dates on the copied directories would not match their
		originals.

The example from cpio(1) manual page:

	find . -depth -print | cpio -pdl newdir

Hope this helps,
Don