find(1) man-page/find error with -x/-xdev
mdff
nospam at mgedv.net
Sun Jul 3 13:24:21 GMT 2005
as documented on 5.4-RELEASE, there's a divergence between
man 1 find and the command itself and the option "-x" a.k.a. "-xdev".
although "-xdev" is "deprecated", it's the only working one ;-)
$ man 1 find
<...snip...>
-x Prevent find from descending into directories that have a
device
number different than that of the file from which the descent
began.
This option is equivalent to the deprecated -xdev primary.
<...snip...>
$ find . -x
find: -x: unknown option
$ find . -xdev
<...works...>
$ uname -a
FreeBSD pbpdev01 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC
2005 root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
conclusio: divergence between the man-page and the command.
br, mdff...
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