-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Steve Ward on 11/28/2007 8:47 PM: > Except that it recurses into subdirectories, while the command-line glob > does not. You would also need to use -prune or the non-portable > -maxdepth > 1 with find to limit results to the current directory. > <snip> > > Why is -maxdepth 1 non-portable?
Because it is not required by POSIX, therefore, not all find implementations have it. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHTjqL84KuGfSFAYARAojwAKCTfjyNgennSRzlFTdBXn9gwxIuDwCghg1m qsaPq/qrXUZWwrPVkDsyQdo= =cLVJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
