[Speakers] Other potential topics:

Bruce Smith bruce at armintl.com
Wed Jul 27 13:42:11 EDT 2005


> > I could do that one.  Not sure how long it would be, I might have to
> > talk   r e a l l y   s l o w   to fill up an hour.   :-)
> 
> The find man page is 1043 lines long!

OK, I'll try to fill at an hour, talking only slightly slow.  :-)

> It even contains examples like -
> find /    ( -perm +4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' ) , \
>           ( -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt '%-10s %p\n' )
> 
> Which looks really cool.

Yes, it can do some really cool stuff.

BTW, I haven't tried the example you posted, but I'll bet it won't work
correctly in BASH without escaping the parenthesis with backslashes.

I've also found the "-print0" to be EXTREMELY USEFUL under some
circumstances.  (leaving that hang on purpose, as a teaser for my
upcoming presentation :)

 - BS




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