Re: Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure

RB wrote: > In short, I'm looking for a clean way to find the shallowest 'CVS', > '.svn', or what have you in a given directory structure without > ignoring sibling directories. If a project publishes multiple trees > (trunk, branch, etc.) with no common VCS parent, it's difficult to > cleanly cat

Finding shallowest instance of $foo in a given structure

I've presented myself with an interesting (to me) problem that I can't seem to address with find; an alternative would be a trivially short script, but I'm being stubborn for the moment. I'll try to make this short. In tracking multiple OSS projects, I've collected a src/ directory full of variou

[bug #22662] incomplete documentation for sub-second time stamps in find -printf format specifiers

URL: Summary: incomplete documentation for sub-second time stamps in find -printf format specifiers Project: findutils Submitted by: None Submitted on: Tuesday 03/18/2008 at 19:19 UTC

Testsuite strangeness (unneeded tempfile)

Hello, findutils-4.4.0/find/testsuite/find.gnu/xtype-symlink.exp reads --- exec rm -rf tmp exec mkdir tmp exec touch tmp/file exec ln -s file tmp/LINK exec ls -l tmp > /tmp/z find_start p {tmp/LINK -xtype f } exec rm -rf tmp --- Afaict the "ls -l tmp > /tmp/z" serves no p