On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:26:56 -0700 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> .... 'find' then presumably > (this is a guess, I'm not familiar with the code) reads the full > directory listing (recursively), closes the discriptor (4), then does a > 'stat' on each file, for additional information. But, since the fd has > been closed, it no longer exists and can't be stat'd, causing the error. Very likely it is so. Thank you all. Why was I confused of this particular error message? Because the "-group" is the only known (for me) switch that cases find to error that way. For example sudo find /proc -name foo -print doesn't error. -- Vladimir Zolotykh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

