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'find' is an interesting animal: it* really only has a handful of traditional option parameters, and these are of the single-dash-single-letter variety. The si
by ilikepi 15y ago
'find' is an interesting animal: it* really only has a handful of traditional option parameters, and these are of the single-dash-single-letter variety. The single-dash-word parameters are all part of its expression language for selecting filesystem objects.
* checked against /usr/bin/find on OS X 10.6.8 (which seems to lack an option parameter for printing its own version number) and GNU find 4.2.27
- silentbicycle 15y ago'find' is one of the oldest Unix programs still in common use. Its standardized arguments predate modern conventions for command line arguments.