Obvious 'Doh!'? find vs. diff....

[Joshua Oreman]

Easy on the send button!

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 09:03:41PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:
> <admin at ezra> [/usr/src] [19:57]
> #find /  -name "GENERIC" -print
> /usr/src/sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC
> /usr/src/sys/pc98/conf/GENERIC
> /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> 
> <admin at ezra> [/usr/src] [19:57]
> #diff /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC /usr/src/sys/i386/GENERIC
> diff: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC/GENERIC: No such file or directory

/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC is probably a directory. The `find' command you want
is:
#find /usr/src /usr/obj -name GENERIC -type f -print

`-type f' restricts it to files.

-- Josh

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