Follow-up Comment #1, bug #50058 (project findutils): First, I think you need to define carefully the semantics of your proposal and consider its implications.
As I read what you wrote, which files/directories are examined by find would depend on the order in which directories were examined. There is no way to control that order, and no existing find predicate is affected in that way. And as you've written the example, it would not behave as desired. Consider this structure: A A1 A1a A1b A2 Suppose files A1a and A2 are "recently updated 'certain' files". If find walks the tree in the order shown, find will not see A2 (and thus attempt to prune all of A) until after A1a has been examined. To truly meet the stated requirements, you'll have to scan the entire tree for updated files and then post-process that list to find the required directories. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50058> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/