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Ask HN: Should I need to use -print in a find command?

• jeffreygoesto 3y ago
  At least for print0 I can answer. It delimits the output with zero chars instead of spaces. That is useful if you process the output with xargs (add '-0' there, see help text or man page). If your file or directory names contain spaces, they will stay together with the zero delimiter, whereas without they would be split into pieces abd xargs does not see valid file names. In a directory containing files with spaces, try both find . -type f | xargs ls -1 find . -type f -print0| xargs -0 ls -1
• compressedgas 3y ago
  No, print is the default action. However if you use some other action such as -delete or -exec, if you want to print also, you must include the print option.