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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: cleanup script needed
Message-ID: <1607@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 10 May 89 19:53:02 GMT
References: <19510@adm.BRL.MIL> <238@cheers.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>	find DIR -name 'filename' -ls
>
>To get a directory listing (is the -ls flag standard or just a 
>SunOS'ism?).

The answer to the question is "no" - it's neither standard, nor is it a
SunOSism.  It's a BSDism (which was folded into the S5-based "find"s in
later SunOS releases).  If you don't have it, you may have "xargs",
which can bundle up the output of "find" and run one "ls" command for
every N files, not just for every file.

>Find is one of the most powerful Unix utilities, but has too many
>command-line switches!  This causes it to be mis-used or never-used
>by a lot of people who really need such a utility.

Or, to quote (at least some versions of) the man page:

     BUGS
	The syntax is painful.