Request for long option support for find -type

Hello, I am a user of the GNU findutils package, and I appreciate your work on maintaining and improving this useful tool. I have a suggestion for a possible enhancement that I think would benefit many users. I would like to request that the find command supports long options for the -type arg

[bug #46305] Doing "find -L . -type d -delete" fails on symlinks to directories.

URL: Summary: Doing "find -L . -type d -delete" fails on symlinks to directories. Project: findutils Submitted by: pfudd Submitted on: Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:23:12 AM GMT Category: find

XARGS_SEQ code & docs patch

1 9 | xargs -n2 -P2 sh -c "echo $$ > $XARGS_SEQ" cat out.* In serial/-P1 mode a client program could always maintain this state in the filesystem (e.g. sharing the output file with appending, etc.). In parallel mode it makes more sense for xargs itself to maintain and export thi

updatedb won't update

Hi - I downloaded find-utils for solaris 10 sparc machines, and installed it on my SunBlade 2000. When I run updatedb, a call to "sort" runs out of memory. I changed each call to sort to sort -S 50, and it no longer runs out of memory. Instead, it runs for about a second, produces the error

differences between -false and comma "," operator

ny other implementations of find(1) that provide the "," comma operator? Please carbon-copy me on replies. Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed technical support & remote administration http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/ ___