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Actions

I have said that actions are those which actually do something. Well, -prune rather does not do something, i.e. descending the directory tree (unless -depth is given). It is usally find together with -fstype, to choose among the various filesystems which should be checked.

The other actions can be divided into two broad categories;



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Ross Biro
Thu May 25 10:45:54 PDT 1995