Re: find patch: allow -mode as synonym for -perm

2006-03-28 Thread James Youngman
On 3/22/06, Alan Iwi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a tiny patch to allow "-mode" as a synonym for "-perm", just because > it's such an obvious thing for people to try to call it The problem with this though is that they will end up with nonportable shell scripts, surely? I could be convinc

Re: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +

2006-03-28 Thread James Youngman
On 3/26/06, D Antryg M Revok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you /probably/ don't care, since it's been "good enough" for the GNU > tradition ( to be arbitrary and broken ) for years, but incompetence is > incompentence. > > If I rig my work to abuse all into obedience, everyone has the right to > cal

Re: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} +

2006-03-28 Thread James Youngman
On 3/28/06, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: bug in FIND: argument list too damn long using -exec chmod 440 {} + > > But that should not suffer from an argument list too long problem. > The command is being executed one at a time for every matching file. No, the "+" suffix makes