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From: uk1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Find bug
Date: 4 May 1995 06:37:52 +0200
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany
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References: <kientzleD7rAq3.5q2@netcom.com> <3o55t1$191@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Reply-To: uk1@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Kieber)
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In article <3o55t1$191@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>, j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
writes:
><kientzle@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>>files listed there.) This is apparently a bug in find's handling of
>>the -perm argument.
>>
>> find $mount -xdev -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s
>
>It is apparently a bug in kientzle@netcom.com's understanding of the
>(admittedly weird) find syntax. :-)
>
>Make this
>
> find $mount \( -xdev -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s \) -print
>
>and it should be flying.
Shouldn't this be
find $mount -xdev \( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s \) -print
--
Ulf Kieber
<{uk1, news}@irz.inf.tu-dresden.de>;
<kieber@sax.sax.de>; <ulf@maria.wustl.edu>
Don't expect me to be a breeder, and I won't assume you're a fag.