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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find command
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Date: 7 Dec 89 18:58:22 GMT
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>However, there *ISN'T* a -depth option in Ultrix/SunOs/BSD find, so I guess
>it isn't possible to do a post-order DFS search.

Err, umm, while Ultrix "find" *might* be a derivative purely of BSD
"find", SunOS "find" hasn't been so since SunOS 3.2; since 3.2, it's
been derived from both BSD's and S5's "find", and *does* have the
"-depth" option.  The Ultrix one might well be so derived also....