find crosses partition/filesystem boundries just fine, on both a 5.1 and
6.0 system - even nfs mounted drives and smbmounted drives :)
RH51 findutils-4.1-24
RH6.0 findutils-4.1-31
not sure what you are seeing, but find *does* cross filesystems
escaping the arguments applies to all commands typed at the shell. You
will proabbly find info on this in the bash man page.
charles
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Mike Friedrichs wrote:
> I thank all of you for your response.
>
> It turns out that my example file is in /usr/bin, which is in a different
> partition than /. And 'find' will not search across partition boundaries. I
> found this by trial and error.
>
> Both command lines
> a.) find /usr -iname "j*" -xdev -print; and
> b.) find /usr -iname j\* -xdev -print
>
> give the correct results.
>
> I'm just surprised that none of the reference books that I have make
> reference to searching across partition boundaries or using "j*' or j\*. My
> reference books show examples of using file names with out the quotation
> marks or the escape characters.
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