Peter da Silva writes: > there's always been some people complaining about find being some > kind of exception because it uses those crazy long options. It's > not, it's consistent, it's just hateful.
Well, it's consistent with itself, sure, but hardly with the rest of Unix of that vintage. I'm reminded of Mark Pilgrim's line that "Interoperating only with yourself is just a standards-compliant form of masturbation." The manual for Fifth Edition (where I think find first appeared in its modern form) has apparently been lost, but find(1) in Sixth Edition says: .sh BUGS Syntax should be reconciled with .it if. By the release of Seventh Edition, that's been upgraded to this: .SH BUGS The syntax is painful. Oh how true. -- Aaron Crane
