docs for "--execdir" confusing

2013-09-02 Thread Eric Hanchrow
In Version: 4.4.2-4ubuntu1, the info doc for --execdir says ``The command is executed in the directory in which `find' was run.'' However, the doc for --exec says essentially the same thing: ``The main difference is that the command is executed in the directory from which `find' was invoked ...''

suggestion: -newer-than option that takes a date

2006-03-20 Thread Eric Hanchrow
find 4.1.20 takes a "-newer" option that lets me specify a file; find will then tell me about files that are newer than it. But I often want to find files that are newer than a particular date; in order to get what I want, I have to create a temporary file, and use "touch" to set its last-mod time