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Re: portability as a goal for debian?



On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 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).

As does FreeBSD.  
           
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