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From: maryhc@hpcc01.HP.COM (Mary Hsia-Coron)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Do you use find command?
Message-ID: <2570005@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 21:18:28 GMT
Organization: HP Corp Computing & Services
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Do you use the -print and -depth options with the find command?

-print option:
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All the manual pages I've read recommend using -print to display
output from find. I've found that -print is unnecessary
on my HP-UX systems (7.0 HP-UX and later releases). For example, 
              find / -user pat
works fine.

Question:
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On your UNIX system, must -print be used to display the results of
find? (Please state what flavor of UNIX you have: ULTRIX, SUN, ZENIX, etc.)

-depth option:
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The AT&T System V manual pages say that when find is used with cpio,
-depth should be used to list files in directories without write
permission. For example:
       find / -name report -depth | cpio -ov > /dev/rmt/0h

On HP-UX systems, find will list files in directories without write
permission even when -depth is NOT used.

Question:
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On your UNIX system, must find be used with -depth when piping to cpio?
(Please state what flavor of UNIX you have: ULTRIX, SUN, ZENIX, etc.)


I'm documenting use of find on UNIX systems IN GENERAL and want to make the
right recommendations about whether to use -print and -depth. I was going
to recommend that both options not be used.
 

Thanks for any info you can provide!
Mary Hsia-Coron
Hewlett-Packard Customer Training
mary@hpasdd.hp.com