find(1) trivia

chris at umcp-cs.UUCP chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Mon Jun 25 09:45:17 AEST 1984


``ok'' is intended to be used for interactive command execution.
For example,

	find . -name \*.o -ok rm {} \;

will print out the name of each ``found'' .o file and wait for
an answer.  ``y'' will allow rm to remove the file; ``n'' will
make find go on to the next .o, if any.
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