On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:22:16AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> Your find commands are either redundant or broken :)

Most find commands are broken.

The chance of a someone writing a reasonably complex
but correct find command after reading, say, just the
man page are pretty close to zero.

In fact I'd say 'find' itself is pretty broken:

1. the options are non-posix (single - for long word)
2. the file args come before the options, not after

Also the -prune function and the fact that you have to
escape the ; at the end of the command but
not the whole command pretty much bewilders 
everyone on first sight.


--
Matt


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