• c10l@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t mind the order of path, arguments and options, but what the hell is the deal with long arguments with a single dash? i.e. -name instead of —-name

  • Hjalmar@feddit.nu
    0·
    6 months ago

    What’s up with find? I’ve got so used to fd that I don’t understand what this is referring to

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.deOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      When you want to find something in a different path than your current one you have to supply it as the first argument. When you try to do find -name foo.bar /path it will complain that the path should be the first argument. So it knows what you’re trying to do and instead of doing it it just complaints.