How to Get More Out of find

Jan 22, 2005 11:58 PM
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The UNIX find utility is one of those tools that I know I should get a better grasp of. In this case, I'm a bit freaked out by its quirky syntax. Thankfully this list of tricks illustrates some of its uses.


Comments: How to Get More Out of find

Interesting. I just ran across this webpage when trying to find a nice way to run a swcopy under hpux.

I ended up with:

find /$PATH -name *.depot -exec swcopy -s {} \* @ /path/to/new/depot \;

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