Bob Scofield said:
>
> Thanks for resonding to my Unintall post. I have two questions if you
> have the time.
>
> 1) In your find command what is "%1\n"? Does that represent a
> variable? What is it? What does it do?
Hey there. Actually, it's "%l" (percent elle). If you look at the
man page for "find", it describes all of the different things
that the "-printf" option can spit out for you. (It's similar to
printf() in C and other languages... the string, in this case "%l\n" is
a formatting description (hence the "f" in "printf"))
The "\n" is a newline character. ("\" is being used as an escape
character, which causes printf to look at the next character(s) to
determine what special character to spit out)
Make sense? :) Also see the printf(1) and printf(3) man pages.
("printf" in section 1 of the man page has to do with a printf program
you can execute from a shell like bash... section 3 talks about the
C function "printf()")
$ man find
$ man 1 printf
$ man 3 printf
Enjoy! :)
-bill!
