On 22.9. 21:15, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 9/20/19 10:24 PM, hk wrote:
Bash Version: 5.0
Patch Level: 0
Release Status: release
Description:
On the section 3.2.6(GNU Parallel, page 16 in the pdf) of Bash
Reference Manual. The manual uses `find' command to illustrate
possible use cases of `parallel' as examples. but the option `-depth'
does not accept any argument, I think it means `-maxdepth` option
instead.
-depth n
True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of
the traversal is n.
It's not in POSIX, and maybe GNU find doesn't implement it.
That seems to raise a question.
Isn't Bash a GNU project? Would it be prudent to use other GNU tools in
examples, if standard POSIX features aren't sufficient? I can see that
FreeBSD find has '-depth n' (as well the standard '-depth', somewhat
confusingly) but should the reader of the manual be assumed to know the
options supported by BSD utilities?
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Ilkka Virta / itvi...@iki.fi
