Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples
Date	2019-09-23 14:12 -0400
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On 9/23/19 1:24 PM, Robert Elz wrote:
>     Date:        Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:59:43 -0400
>     From:        Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
>     Message-ID:  <20190923145943.GX28751@eeg.ccf.org>
> 
>   | But... there literally *is* a real standard for this.
> 
> Hmm, yes, you're right.   That suggests that -depth must be a System-V
> invention (POSIX wouldn't have added a spec for an undocumented internal
> operator from BSD...)

It's in SVR2 (1984?), at least, and POSIX-1003.2d11 (1991) has it, without
any mention of where it came from, so I assume POSIX picked it up from the
SVID. The SVR2 page implies that it was added to support cpio.

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