find command

[Brian V. Smith]

In article <12446 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>,
gsf at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Glenn Fowler[drew]) writes:
< 
< the -depth option is mis-named - BSD and ATT find always use
depth-first-search
< by default find does a pre-order DFS - a directory is seen before its
children
< -depth (when available) turns on a post-order DFS - a directory is seen
< after its children have been processed
< 
< ...[deleted]
<
< just think of -depth as -post
< a breadth-first directory traversal would be resource intensive

However, there *ISN'T* a -depth option in Ultrix/SunOs/BSD find, so I guess
it isn't possible to do a post-order DFS search.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith at lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.