2000-04-04-14:37:48 Jim Toth:
> > find Mail -maxdepth 1 -printf '=%P\n'
>
> Right, but if you don't have Maildir, and want, say
> =oldmail/something, then that would turn into =something, which would
> be wrong. (although of course it wouldn't get there to begin wth b/c
> of the maxdepth).
Actually, no, %P isn't "basename", it's "leave off the constant
prefix that's the command-line argument find started its search
from". So if you aren't using Maildirs and so want recursion, the
command could be
find Mail -printf '=%P\n'
Season with "! -name whatever" to taste.
BTW, GNU find has %f for basename, and %h for the directories torn
off by that basename (i.e. including the command-line argument), and
%H for the command-line argument, so these invocations are
equivalent:
find ... -printf '%p\n'
find ... -printf '%H/%P\n'
find ... -printf '%h/%f\n'
except that they do different things on the line that prints the
argument itself --- the first one prints it plain, the second one
appends a slash, and the third one prepends a slash.
-Bennett
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