Dan Skinner <JDanSkinner@jdanskinner.com> wrote:
>brian@aljex.com (Brian K. White) wrote in message news:<60bd4c6b.0401130407.1015c50e@posting.google. com>...
>> Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message news:<20040112230102.GM18439@jpradley.jpr.com>...
>> > Brian K. White typed (on Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 01:47:24PM -0800):
>> > | lslk outputs inode numbers for file locks.
>> > |
><snip>
>> > BTW: '-print' has been totally unecessary for the find command for
>> > many years -- it's the default action.
>>
>> just proves I learned on xenix like a real man unlike all these linux
>> weenies
>SCO 3.2v4.2 -print is required.
>SCO 3.2v5.0.4 -print is NOT required.
>However saying -print is totally unnecessary is saying my fingers automatically
>know what flavor or version they are typing on. They have enough trouble
>with "/" and "\".
>-print may be unnecessary to later versions of SCO and to Linux, but new
>rules for my old dogs (make that fingers) is asking a lot.
I'm sure JPR knows this, but let me also point out that saying
print is not necessary doesn't really tell the whole story. It
is not needed for the simple cases here, but it becomes very necessary
in more complex usage.
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