 |  |
| |
"Why didn't find find my file?" I wondered sometimes. "I know it's there!"
More often than not, I'd forgotten to use -print. Without -print (or -ls, on versions of find that have it), find may not print any pathnames. For a long time, this quirk of find confused new users, so most modern versions of find will assume -print if you don't supply an action; some will give you an error message instead. If you don't get the output you expected from find, check to make sure that you specified the action you meant.
--JP and DJPH
|  | |
| 9.2. Delving Through a Deep Directory Tree |  | 9.4. Looking for Files with Particular Names |
Copyright © 2003 O'Reilly & Associates. All rights reserved.