Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples

From	Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples
Date	2019-09-23 16:36 +0200
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On Sep 23 2019, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> wrote:

>     Date:        Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:29:18 +0300
>     From:        Ilkka Virta <itvirta@iki.fi>
>     Message-ID:  <59cf49b0-1292-b752-4fe8-8928fd558ebf@iki.fi>
>
>   | (as well the standard '-depth', somewhat confusingly)
>
> There is no real standard for this - NetBSD has deprecated the -depth
> operator (which never really was one) and replaced it by a -d option
> which makes much more sense (-depth never really was the right way to
> do it).

According to https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi, find -d already
appeared in 4.3BSD, and -depth is much newer.

Andreas.

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Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2019-09-23 16:36 +0200

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