On 2008-09-23 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:11 PM, George Spelvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Based on what you write I would assume that this is true for both the > >> find and the oldfind executables built in all even vaguely-recent > >> findutils releases. > > > > Er... I'm not familiar with the oldfind executable. I'm using the > > Debian-compiled amd64 4.4.0 binary.
> Ah. If you build from source, you get two executables. One is > built with fts, the other without. Their names are goverened by the > --with-fts configure option: > If ---with-fts: "find" has fts and the other binary is "oldfind" > If --without-fts: "find" lacks fts and the other binary is "ftsfind". [...] FWIW the Debian package of findutils ships both binaries. cu andreas
