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Diff for /src/usr.bin/find/find.1 between version 1.78 and 1.79

version 1.78, 2010/07/15 20:51:38

version 1.79, 2010/09/19 23:48:58

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space, tab, and newline

.Pq Sq \en

characters.

Alternatively, the

Consider using

.Fl print0

primary may be used in conjunction with the

instead.

.Fl 0

option to

.Xr xargs 1 ,

allowing all file names to be processed safely.

.It Fl x

Prevents

.Nm

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.It Ic -print0

This primary always evaluates to true.

It prints the pathname of the current file to standard output, followed

by a null character.

by a null character, suitable for use with the

.Fl 0

option to

.Xr xargs 1 .

.It Ic -prune

This primary always evaluates to true.

It causes

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.Pp

.Dl "$ find /usr/src -path /usr/src/gnu -prune -or -name \e*.[0-9]"

.Pp

Find and remove all *.jpg files in the current working directory:

Find and remove all *.jpg and *.gif files under the current working

directory:

.Pp

.Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg -exec rm {} \e;"

.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -or -name \e*.gif \e) -exec rm {} \e;

.Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg | xargs rm"

.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -or -name \e*.gif \e) -print0 | xargs -0r rm"

.Sh SEE ALSO

.Xr chflags 1 ,

.Xr chmod 1 ,

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and

.Ql \&;

may have to be escaped from the shell.

.Pp

Passing the output of

.Nm

to other programs requires some care:

.Pp

.Dl "$ find . -name \e*.jpg | xargs rm"

.Dl "$ rm `find . -name \e*.jpg`"

.Pp

would, given files

.Dq important\ .jpg

and

.Dq important ,

remove

.Dq important .

Use the

.Ic -print0

.Ic -exec

primaries instead.

.Pp

As there is no delimiter separating options and file names or file

names and the