find -inum option undocumented

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sat Jul 5 09:09:09 AEST 1986


In article <1036 at rlgvax.UUCP> dennis at rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis Bednar) writes:
>By the way, what does the -depth option of find do?

Forces a depth-first traversal of the directory hierarchy.
The main value of this is that a later restore using cpio
can handle read-only diretories properly, since they'll
not be made read-only until all their files are in place.

>Also the man page for find doesn't describe -depth either.

Whose manual?  I think it's in the current one from AT&T.



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