MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 1

find(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities find(1)
Message: must specify option after –primary
Cause: You specified –primary, but did not provide the argument that it requires.
Action: Specify a valid argument after –primary.
Message: non-terminated "primary" argument list
Cause: You specified the –exec or –ok primary and did not terminate the argument
list following it with a semicolon (;).
Action: Terminate the argument list following –exec or –ok with a semicolon.
Message: Octal mode may contain only digits [0-7] in numstring
Cause: When using the octal mode to indicate new access permissions, you specified a
string numstring which contained a character other than the digits 0 to 7.
Action: Ensure that all octal mode values are valid octal numbers.
Message: unable to access "pathname": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: unable to allocate memory for expression tree
Cause: find requires system resources to build an expression tree. There were not
enough free resources to do so.
Action: Free up more system resources or specify a less complex expression.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for find.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid find options.
Message: Unknown or missing operator in symbolic mode "mode-
string"
Cause: When using the symbolic mode to indicate new access permissions, you speci-
fied a string modestring which had either a missing or unrecognized operator.
Action: Make sure that all mode values in symbolic mode contain one of the following
operators: +, -,or=.
Message: user name "user" is unknown
Cause: You specified the –user primary, but did not provide a valid user name.
Action: Provide a valid user name after the –user primary.
Message: write error on standard output: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.
Most UNIX systems do not have a default action of –print; hence, they do not need the
–none option. The –a operator is undocumented on many UNIX systems. The –cpio,
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