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Funnily enough, find(1), one of the oldest Unix tools to still be somewhat actively used, had those from the very beginning. Although, arguably, find(1) can be
by ainar-g 5y ago
Funnily enough, find(1), one of the oldest Unix tools to still be somewhat actively used, had those from the very beginning. Although, arguably, find(1) can be considered an interpreter of a language of its own, like sed(1) and awk(1), as opposed to a utility that accepts flags.
See the Unix v5 man page source: https://github.com/aap/unixman/blob/master/v5man/man1/find.1 https://github.com/aap/unixman/blob/master/v5man/man1/find.1. (If anyone has a link where those are rendered, please let me know.)
- anjbe 5y agoAccording to Dennis Ritchie, find(1) was developed by a different group at Bell Labs which explains the difference in style. “…We were somewhat put off by the syntax of their things. However, they were clearly quite useful, and they were accepted.” http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/find-history
- Trouble_007 5y agoOpen a terminal in a directory; Find Files $ find|sort|egrep -i 'file.name' Find Text $ find|sort|egrep -iR 'text.in.files'
- cryptonector 5y ago"It came from NJ" was a pejorative at Sun. Like, if you were staring at some awful piece of code in Solaris, and you were like, "who wrote this??" and asked around, and the answer you got was "it came from New Jersey", that meant it was part of SVR4.