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Subject: [gnu.utils.bug] GNU find 2.0 released.
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Date: 21 Nov 90 21:00:14 GMT
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Archive-name: gnu-find/21-Nov-90
Original-posting-by: djm@AI.MIT.EDU
Original-subject: GNU find 2.0 released.
Archive-site: prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]
Archive-directory: /pub/gnu
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

GNU find 2.0 is now available by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu
[18.71.0.38] in the file pub/gnu/find-2.0.tar.Z.

The main new features in this release are:

* xargs is now included.

* New predicate -print0 to print the path terminated by a null
character instead of a newline; xargs has a -0 option to read
null-terminated filenames.  The idea for this came from Dan Bernstein
in a discussion in comp.unix.shell.  It prevents xargs from working
incorrectly on filenames that contain whitespace or quotes.

* -fstype works on more versions of Unix.

* -fstype works in the presence of automounters.

* New predicate -follow causes symbolic links to be dereferenced.

* New predicate -maxdepth N causes only N levels of directories to be
searched.

* comes with roffable man pages.