On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 17:39 -0600, home user via users wrote: > On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote: > > > A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line. I'm curious: > > > did "grep" have the -r option back then? > > > > Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember grep ever not having the > > '-r' option and I've been using it since the 1970s. In fact xargs > > hasn't been around forever (though it's pretty old) and is certainly > > younger than grep. > > > > poc > > ok. Thank-you. > Hmmm... Unix really does go that far back. Linux goes back to 1991 > according to wikipedia. >
I started using UNIX in 1976. That was the "5th Edition", which relatively few people outside Bell Labs ever saw. Not to be confused with the later System V. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
