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

2008-03-19 Thread RB
> Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a > (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form > so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length > permitting, the manual page). Since I was already familiar with manual page syntax and a

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Proulx
RB wrote: > > Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a > > (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form > > so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length > > permitting, the manual page). > > Never done a Texinfo doc, but no bet

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

2008-03-19 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 8:48 PM, RB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a > > (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form > > so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length > > permitting, the

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

2008-03-19 Thread RB
> Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a > (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form > so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length > permitting, the manual page). Never done a Texinfo doc, but no better time to learn than

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

2008-03-19 Thread James Youngman
Update of bug #22662 (project findutils): Assigned to:None => jay Release: 4.3.9 => 4.4.0 ___ Reply to this item at:

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

2008-03-19 Thread James Youngman
I also think this is an interesting example. The documentation needs a few more good examples. Would the two of you be able to be able to pull this into a (what-I-wanted-to-achieve, command, explanation-of-how-it-works) form so that we can put it into the Texinfo documenation? (And, length perm

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

2008-03-19 Thread Bob Proulx
RB wrote: > > Using the above test case the following seems to work. > > > > find srcdir \( -exec test -d {}/CVS \; -o -exec test -d {}/.svn \; -o > > -exec test -d {}/.git \; \) -print -prune | sort > > That works for me as well; I knew I had to be a few sandwiches short! > It also has the add

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

2008-03-19 Thread RB
> Is that right? That is correct, but having failed to apply basic shortcut logic with parentheses and '-o', my search was painfully slow when testing due to using only a single subtype (hint: follow your own requirements). Hence, I presumed early on that -exec was the wrong way to go and chased o