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  Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> - 2019-09-22 14:15 -0400

#15401 — Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples

On 9/20/19 10:24 PM, hk wrote:

> Bash Version: 5.0
> Patch Level: 0
> Release Status: release
> 
> Description:
>         On the section 3.2.6(GNU Parallel, page 16 in the pdf) of Bash
> Reference Manual. The manual uses `find' command to illustrate
> possible use cases of `parallel' as examples. but the option `-depth'
> does not accept any argument, I think it means `-maxdepth` option
> instead.

-depth n
      True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of
      the traversal is n.

It's not in POSIX, and maybe GNU find doesn't implement it.

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