HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 1 User Commands A-M (vol 1)

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find(1) find(1)
a The time the file was last accessed
c The time the inode of the file was last modified
m The time the file was last modified
If the tv2 character is omitted, it defaults to
m. Note that the -newer option is
equivalent to
-newermm.
Syntax examples;
-newera file
-newermc file
-inum n True if the file serial number (inode number) is n. Note that file serial numbers
are unique only within a given file system. Therefore, matching file serial
numbers does not guarantee that the referenced files are the same unless you
restrict the search to a single file system.
-linkedto path True if the file is the same physical file as the file specified by path (i.e., linked to
path). This primary is similar to
-inum, but correctly detects when a file is
hard-linked to path, even when multiple file systems are searched.
-print Causes the current path name to be printed. Always true.
-exec cmd True if the executed cmd returns a zero value as exit status. The end of cmd
must be punctuated by a semicolon (
;) or a plus sign (+) (semicolon and plus are
special to the shell and must be escaped). When
+ is used, cmd aggregates a set
of path names and executes on the set. Any command arguments between the
first occurrence of {} and + are ignored. The reason for preferring + to a ;
is
vastly improved performance. Any command argument
{} is replaced by the
current path name. cmd may contain supplementary code set characters.
-ok cmd Same as -exec except that the generated command line is printed with a ques-
tion mark first, and is executed only if the user responds by typing y. The form
of the affirmative response is locale dependent: y in the C locale, see
LANG on
environ(5). The end of cmd must be punctuated by a semicolon (
;) (semicolon is
special to the shell and must be escaped). cmd may contain supplementary code
set characters.
-cpio device Write the current file on device in cpio(4) format (5120-byte records). The use of
-cpio implies -depth. Always true.
-ncpio Same as -cpio but adds the -c option to cpio. The use of -ncpio
implies
-depth. Always true.
-prune If the current entry is a directory, cause find to skip that directory. This can
be useful to avoid walking certain directories, or to avoid recursive loops when
using cpio -p. Note, however, that -prune is useless if the -depth option
has also been given. See the description of -only and the EXAMPLES section,
below, for more information. Always true.
-only This is a positive-logic version of
-prune.A-prune is performed after every
directory, unless
-only is successfully evaluated for that directory. As an
example, the following three commands are equivalent:
find . -fsonly hfs -print
find . -print -fstype hfs -only
find . -print ! -fstype hfs -prune
Note, however, that -only is useless if the -depth option has also been given.
Always true.
( expression ) True if the parenthesized expression is true. The spaces are required.
Parentheses are special to the shell and must be escaped, as in \( and \).
Primaries can be combined by using the following operators (in order of decreasing precedence):
! expression Logical NOT operator. True if expression is not true.
expression [-a] expression Logical AND operator. True if both of the expressions are true.
expression -o expression Logical OR operator. True if either or both of the expressions are true.
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