[ILUG] solaris find

[Kevin Dobey]

> > well, "find . -name <filename>" always does it for me. 
> 
> On Solaris, unless you specify the "-print" option, this will 
> do nothing
> except trash your disk.
> 
> Nick

Not always true. (Yes -print is always evaluated as true but i means you
don't always need it). 

Perhaps it's a configurable thing but. 
On Certain version of certain' nix's  you need the -print (or -ls - or even
-l [only sco i think]) before you see any output. 

AFAIK on AIX 3.x you NEED to put in a -print (or equivalent) where as on 4.x
you don't need it at all. 
And on SunOS 5.5.1 you don't need the -print. 

and probably there is still occasion not to use a -print if you like - never
tried it but i guess find / -exec rm {}; [1] 
would still work - and it would really trash you disk (in every sense of the
word). 

Of course correct me if I am wrong. 

Rgds
Kevin

[1]Or what ever the correct syntax is[2]
[2]i'm an xargs man myself[3] so i woun't know
[3] except in cases where it's more fun to do it with awk[4]
[4] Mr. Lyda will know what i mean. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Hilliard [mailto:nick at iol.ie]