Re: find -printf ' %TT

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:01:04 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
>> On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:57:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
>> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". Gnu find previously
>> > printed hh:mm:ss for the files modify time but now is printing
>> > hh:mm:ss.0000000000 for all 33K+ files on my Squeeze system.
>> > 
>> > The man page still says:
>> >     T      time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
>> 
>> Mmm... man page also says:
>> 
>> "Nanosecond-resolution timestamps were implemented in findutils-4.3.3."
> 
> Not quite backwards-compatible for scripts parsing the output I´d say ;)

Agree, but changes do (and have to) happen. What I miss is a better 
documentation for the changes and how to get an old behaviour with the 
new version.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón