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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg
Subject: Re: find -inum option undocumented
Message-ID: <1962@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 19:09:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.1962
Posted: Fri Jul  4 19:09:09 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 07:18:50 EDT
References: <1036@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
Lines: 11
Keywords: find, -depth, documentation bug, man page bug

In article <1036@rlgvax.UUCP> dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes:
>By the way, what does the -depth option of find do?

Forces a depth-first traversal of the directory hierarchy.
The main value of this is that a later restore using cpio
can handle read-only diretories properly, since they'll
not be made read-only until all their files are in place.

>Also the man page for find doesn't describe -depth either.

Whose manual?  I think it's in the current one from AT&T.