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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: find(1) trivia
Message-ID: <7614@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 19:45:17 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 19:45:17 1984
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``ok'' is intended to be used for interactive command execution.
For example,

	find . -name \*.o -ok rm {} \;

will print out the name of each ``found'' .o file and wait for
an answer.  ``y'' will allow rm to remove the file; ``n'' will
make find go on to the next .o, if any.
-- 
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