[re-adding the mailing list again]
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Peggy Russell
wrote:
> I find `-D search` the most helpful of debug options.
Good to know. I didn't know anybody else used them.
> Most of the -D options seem
> geared towards optimization rather than diagnostic, although mayb
On 04/04/2011 10:47 PM, Peggy Russell wrote:
> The bottom line seemed to be, I wasn't sure when an implicit `print` was going
> to occur. Ah! Now I get it. If the expression contains *any action* anywhere,
> the user must provide all actions.
Correct, for the right definition of actions.
> The ex
Got it.
> It's true. The -exec and -delete predicates also (from memory, I'm
> not looking at the code right now) turn off the default of performing
> -print when the entire expression is true. If the documentation
> doesn't make this clear, could you raise a bug report on the website
> explai
By copying relevant files in
findutils-4.2.18.tar.gz/findutils-4.3.5.tar.gz to checked out
versions, now I can compile both the package of 4.2.18 4.3.5
successfully. Thank you.
2011/4/4 James Youngman :
> I assume you deleted gnulib/ before running import-gnulib.sh. If so,
> I have no suggestion
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Peggy Russell
wrote:
>> > On a side note: I understand `-name` is the basename and `-path` is
>> > the dirname. Everything is a file. A directory can be matched
>> > with `-name` or `-path`, a file can only be matched with `-name` and
>> > `-path` if no slashes used
