Re: portability as a goal for debian?

To: Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: portability as a goal for debian?
From: Paul Slootman <paul@murphy.nl>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:06:12 +0100
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] tslg0gqwg47.fsf@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>; from hartmans@mit.edu on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 07:57:12PM -0500
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On Tue 06 Mar 2001, Sam Hartman wrote:

> It's annoying though to see people save a few keystrokes on calls to
> find and tar so they can avoid specifying -print or use -j or -z.  I

Note that omitting -print in find is compliant to the single unix
specification (POSIX first specified it as such).

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/find.html

Solaris, HP/UX at the least do The Right Thing with "find dir" without
-print (can't check any others right now).


Paul Slootman
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