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Have you tried finding its path and looking into the file itself? Maybe it's a wrapper or alternative version somewhere in your $PATH you installed and forgot?
by slightwinder 2y ago
Have you tried finding its path and looking into the file itself? Maybe it's a wrapper or alternative version somewhere in your $PATH you installed and forgot?
And to add some mor efor testing: you can try "find /help", "find /?" and "find -?", in case it's using dos-style parameters.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y ago> $ file `which find` /usr/bin/find: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e] > $ find /help find: /help: No such file or directory > $ find /? zsh: no matches found: /? > $ find -? zsh: no matches found: -?
- achierius 2y agoIf you have brew you can install findutils to get gfind which behaves more like you'd expect
- slightwinder 2y agoIs this MacOS? As I remember, they are using the tools from freebsd, and according to man-pages I randomly found on the internet it has indeed no help-parameter. I guess, their culture is to use "man" instead of flavors of --help.