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From: urban@cbnewsl.att.com (john.urban)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Do you use find command?
Message-ID: <1991May17.125949.27766@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 17 May 91 12:59:49 GMT
References: <2570005@hpcc01.HP.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <2570005@hpcc01.HP.COM> maryhc@hpcc01.HP.COM (Mary Hsia-Coron) writes:
>
>Do you use the -print and -depth options with the find command?
>
>-print option:
>--------------
>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:
>---------
>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.)

On AT&T UNIX System V/x86 Release 4.0 Version 2.1, if you type in:
	find / -user install

You'll get:
	find: no action specified

On other UNIX boxes I've seen, find not give you an error message but just
run for a while and the give you the prompt back.  Since no action was
specified, no output was produced.

Sincerely,

John Ben Urban