xargs / FS-maintenance question

[John Macdonald]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 05:27:39PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>                           [...] by default find sticks a -print at the
> end unless -exec or something else is there since it figures some side
> effect should be performed.

That default -print is a gnu find extension - if you are
writing a script that needs to be portable to all Unix systems,
use an explicit -print.  Unfortunately, -print0 is also an
extension that was added in gnu's find, so you can't depend
upon it either for portability.

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