find -inum option undocumented

mikel at codas.UUCP mikel at codas.UUCP
Thu Jul 10 06:48:52 AEST 1986


> By the way, what does the -depth option of find do?
> The man page for cpio attempts to explain what the -depth
> option of find does, but I'm confused.
>
> Also the man page for find doesn't describe -depth either.
>
> -Dennis Bednar
> {decvax,ihnp4,harpo,allegra}!seismo!rlgvax!dennis	UUCP

>From my man page from "AT&T 3B2 Computer Unix System V User Reference Manual"

"   -depth	Always true; causes descent of the directory hierarchy to
		be done so that all entries in a directory are acted on
		before the directory itself. This can be helpful when _f_i_n_d
		is used with _c_p_i_o_(_1_) to transfer files that are contained
		in directories without write permission."
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