[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
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>> I agree (though I also use, incorrectly names, maxdepth and mindepth *)
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>> Casper
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>> * A proper find option would be "-filedepth +/-[num]"
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>Unless you are able to explain this, I prefer -maxdepth and -mindepth
>and  I even implemented it in libfind + sfind three years ago.

All options in find which take a numeric argument, work like this:


	+n   - more than n
	 n   -  exactly n
	-n   - less than n

(size, ctime/mtime/links/ etc)

There is NO numeric argument except when a particular object is identified
(inum, group, user, etc)

So I believe that the proper option would have been "filedepth"  (depth was
already taken)


	file -filedepth n  (same as "find -maxdepth n -mindepth n")
	file -filedepth -n  (same as "find -maxdepth n-1")
	file -filedepth +n  (same as "find -mindepth n+1")


Casper