diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1 index 8bc9f9d69604..e62824a70a80 100644 --- a/usr.bin/find/find.1 +++ b/usr.bin/find/find.1 @@ -1,1140 +1,1160 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. .\" .\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by .\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions .\" are met: .\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. .\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright .\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the .\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. .\" 3. 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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd May 13, 2021 +.Dd July 22, 2022 .Dt FIND 1 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm find .Nd walk a file hierarchy .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P .Op Fl EXdsx .Op Fl f Ar path .Ar path ... .Op Ar expression .Nm .Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P .Op Fl EXdsx .Fl f Ar path .Op Ar path ... .Op Ar expression .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility recursively descends the directory tree for each .Ar path listed, evaluating an .Ar expression (composed of the .Dq primaries and .Dq operands listed below) in terms of each file in the tree. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl E Interpret regular expressions followed by .Ic -regex and .Ic -iregex primaries as extended (modern) regular expressions rather than basic regular expressions (BRE's). The .Xr re_format 7 manual page fully describes both formats. .It Fl H Cause the file information and file type (see .Xr stat 2 ) returned for each symbolic link specified on the command line to be those of the file referenced by the link, not the link itself. If the referenced file does not exist, the file information and type will be for the link itself. File information of all symbolic links not on the command line is that of the link itself. .It Fl L Cause the file information and file type (see .Xr stat 2 ) returned for each symbolic link to be those of the file referenced by the link, not the link itself. If the referenced file does not exist, the file information and type will be for the link itself. .Pp This option is equivalent to the deprecated .Ic -follow primary. .It Fl P Cause the file information and file type (see .Xr stat 2 ) returned for each symbolic link to be those of the link itself. This is the default. .It Fl X Permit .Nm to be safely used in conjunction with .Xr xargs 1 . If a file name contains any of the delimiting characters used by .Xr xargs 1 , a diagnostic message is displayed on standard error, and the file is skipped. The delimiting characters include single .Pq Dq Li " ' " and double .Pq Dq Li " \*q " quotes, backslash .Pq Dq Li \e , space, tab and newline characters. .Pp However, you may wish to consider the .Fl print0 primary in conjunction with .Dq Nm xargs Fl 0 as an effective alternative. .It Fl d Cause .Nm to perform a depth-first traversal. .Pp This option is a BSD-specific equivalent of the .Ic -depth primary specified by .St -p1003.1-2001 . Refer to its description under .Sx PRIMARIES for more information. .It Fl f Ar path Add .Ar path to the list of paths that will be recursed into. This is useful when .Ar path begins with a character that would otherwise be interpreted as an .Ar expression , namely .Dq Li "!" , .Dq Li "(" and .Dq Li - . .It Fl s Cause .Nm to traverse the file hierarchies in lexicographical order, i.e., alphabetical order within each directory. Note: .Ql find -s and .Ql "find | sort" may give different results. +.Pp +For example, +.Ql find -s +puts a directory +.Ql Ar foo +with all its contents before a directory +.Ql Ar foo. +but +.Ql "find | sort" +puts the directory name +.Ql Ar foo. +before any string like +.Ql Ar foo/bar +because +.Ql .\& +goes before +.Ql / +in ASCII. In locales other than +.Ar C +results may vary more due to collate differences. .It Fl x Prevent .Nm from descending into directories that have a device number different than that of the file from which the descent began. .Pp This option is equivalent to the deprecated .Ic -xdev primary. .El .Sh PRIMARIES All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be preceded by a plus sign .Pq Dq Li + or a minus sign .Pq Dq Li - . A preceding plus sign means .Dq more than n , a preceding minus sign means .Dq less than n and neither means .Dq exactly n . .Bl -tag -width indent .It Ic -Bmin Ar n True if the difference between the time of a file's inode creation and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full minute, is .Ar n minutes. .It Ic -Bnewer Ar file Same as .Ic -newerBm . .It Ic -Btime Ar n Ns Op Cm smhdw If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of a file's inode creation and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is .Ar n 24-hour periods. .Pp If units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of a file's inode creation and the time .Nm was started is exactly .Ar n units. Please refer to the .Ic -atime primary description for information on supported time units. .It Ic -acl May be used in conjunction with other primaries to locate files with extended ACLs. See .Xr acl 3 for more information. .It Ic -amin Oo Cm - Ns | Ns Cm + Oc Ns Ar n True if the difference between the file last access time and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full minute, is more than .Ar n .Pq + Ns Ar n , less than .Ar n .Pq - Ns Ar n , or exactly .Ar n minutes ago. .It Ic -anewer Ar file Same as .Ic -neweram . .It Ic -atime Ar n Ns Op Cm smhdw If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the file last access time and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is .Ar n 24-hour periods. .Pp If units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the file last access time and the time .Nm was started is exactly .Ar n units. Possible time units are as follows: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Cm s second .It Cm m minute (60 seconds) .It Cm h hour (60 minutes) .It Cm d day (24 hours) .It Cm w week (7 days) .El .Pp Any number of units may be combined in one .Ic -atime argument, for example, .Dq Li "-atime -1h30m" . Units are probably only useful when used in conjunction with the .Cm + or .Cm - modifier. .It Ic -cmin Oo Cm - Ns | Ns Cm + Oc Ns Ar n True if the difference between the time of last change of file status information and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full minute, is more than .Ar n .Pq + Ns Ar n , less than .Ar n .Pq - Ns Ar n , or exactly .Ar n minutes ago. .It Ic -cnewer Ar file Same as .Ic -newercm . .It Ic -ctime Ar n Ns Op Cm smhdw If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of last change of file status information and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is .Ar n 24-hour periods. .Pp If units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the time of last change of file status information and the time .Nm was started is exactly .Ar n units. Please refer to the .Ic -atime primary description for information on supported time units. .It Ic -d Non-portable, BSD-specific version of .Ic depth . GNU find implements this as a primary in mistaken emulation of .Fx .Nm . .It Ic -delete Delete found files and/or directories. Always returns true. This executes from the current working directory as .Nm recurses down the tree. It will not attempt to delete a filename with a .Dq Pa / character in its pathname relative to .Dq Pa \&. for security reasons. Depth-first traversal processing is implied by this option. The .Ic -delete primary will fail to delete a directory if it is not empty. Following symlinks is incompatible with this option. .It Ic -depth Always true; same as the non-portable .Fl d option. Cause .Nm to perform a depth-first traversal, i.e., directories are visited in post-order and all entries in a directory will be acted on before the directory itself. By default, .Nm visits directories in pre-order, i.e., before their contents. Note, the default is .Em not a breadth-first traversal. .Pp The .Ic -depth primary can be useful when .Nm is used with .Xr cpio 1 to process files that are contained in directories with unusual permissions. It ensures that you have write permission while you are placing files in a directory, then sets the directory's permissions as the last thing. .It Ic -depth Ar n True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of the traversal is .Ar n . .It Ic -empty True if the current file or directory is empty. .It Ic -exec Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li \&; True if the program named .Ar utility returns a zero value as its exit status. Optional .Ar arguments may be passed to the utility. The expression must be terminated by a semicolon .Pq Dq Li \&; . If you invoke .Nm from a shell you may need to quote the semicolon if the shell would otherwise treat it as a control operator. If the string .Dq Li {} appears anywhere in the utility name or the arguments it is replaced by the pathname of the current file. .Ar Utility will be executed from the directory from which .Nm was executed. .Ar Utility and .Ar arguments are not subject to the further expansion of shell patterns and constructs. .It Ic -exec Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li {} + Same as .Ic -exec , except that .Dq Li {} is replaced with as many pathnames as possible for each invocation of .Ar utility . This behaviour is similar to that of .Xr xargs 1 . The primary always returns true; if at least one invocation of .Ar utility returns a non-zero exit status, .Nm will return a non-zero exit status. .It Ic -execdir Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li \&; The .Ic -execdir primary is identical to the .Ic -exec primary with the exception that .Ar utility will be executed from the directory that holds the current file. The filename substituted for the string .Dq Li {} is not qualified. .It Ic -execdir Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li {} + Same as .Ic -execdir , except that .Dq Li {} is replaced with as many pathnames as possible for each invocation of .Ar utility . This behaviour is similar to that of .Xr xargs 1 . The primary always returns true; if at least one invocation of .Ar utility returns a non-zero exit status, .Nm will return a non-zero exit status. .It Ic -flags Oo Cm - Ns | Ns Cm + Oc Ns Ar flags , Ns Ar notflags The flags are specified using symbolic names (see .Xr chflags 1 ) . Those with the .Qq Li no prefix (except .Qq Li nodump ) are said to be .Ar notflags . Flags in .Ar flags are checked to be set, and flags in .Ar notflags are checked to be not set. Note that this is different from .Ic -perm , which only allows the user to specify mode bits that are set. .Pp If flags are preceded by a dash .Pq Dq Li - , this primary evaluates to true if at least all of the bits in .Ar flags and none of the bits in .Ar notflags are set in the file's flags bits. If flags are preceded by a plus .Pq Dq Li + , this primary evaluates to true if any of the bits in .Ar flags is set in the file's flags bits, or any of the bits in .Ar notflags is not set in the file's flags bits. Otherwise, this primary evaluates to true if the bits in .Ar flags exactly match the file's flags bits, and none of the .Ar flags bits match those of .Ar notflags . .It Ic -fstype Ar type True if the file is contained in a file system of type .Ar type . The .Xr lsvfs 1 command can be used to find out the types of file systems that are available on the system. In addition, there are two pseudo-types, .Dq Li local and .Dq Li rdonly . The former matches any file system physically mounted on the system where the .Nm is being executed and the latter matches any file system which is mounted read-only. .It Ic -gid Ar gname The same thing as .Ic -group Ar gname for compatibility with GNU find. GNU find imposes a restriction that .Ar gname is numeric, while .Nm does not. .It Ic -group Ar gname True if the file belongs to the group .Ar gname . If .Ar gname is numeric and there is no such group name, then .Ar gname is treated as a group ID. .It Ic -ignore_readdir_race Ignore errors because a file or a directory is deleted after reading the name from a directory. This option does not affect errors occurring on starting points. .It Ic -ilname Ar pattern Like .Ic -lname , but the match is case insensitive. This is a GNU find extension. .It Ic -iname Ar pattern Like .Ic -name , but the match is case insensitive. .It Ic -inum Ar n True if the file has inode number .Ar n . .It Ic -ipath Ar pattern Like .Ic -path , but the match is case insensitive. .It Ic -iregex Ar pattern Like .Ic -regex , but the match is case insensitive. .It Ic -iwholename Ar pattern The same thing as .Ic -ipath , for GNU find compatibility. .It Ic -links Ar n True if the file has .Ar n links. .It Ic -lname Ar pattern Like .Ic -name , but the contents of the symbolic link are matched instead of the file name. Note that this only matches broken symbolic links if symbolic links are being followed. This is a GNU find extension. .It Ic -ls This primary always evaluates to true. The following information for the current file is written to standard output: its inode number, size in 512-byte blocks, file permissions, number of hard links, owner, group, size in bytes, last modification time, and pathname. If the file is a block or character special file, the device number will be displayed instead of the size in bytes. If the file is a symbolic link, the pathname of the linked-to file will be displayed preceded by .Dq Li -> . The format is identical to that produced by .Bk -words .Dq Nm ls Fl dgils . .Ek .It Ic -maxdepth Ar n Always true; descend at most .Ar n directory levels below the command line arguments. If any .Ic -maxdepth primary is specified, it applies to the entire expression even if it would not normally be evaluated. .Dq Ic -maxdepth Li 0 limits the whole search to the command line arguments. .It Ic -mindepth Ar n Always true; do not apply any tests or actions at levels less than .Ar n . If any .Ic -mindepth primary is specified, it applies to the entire expression even if it would not normally be evaluated. .Dq Ic -mindepth Li 1 processes all but the command line arguments. .It Ic -mmin Oo Cm - Ns | Ns Cm + Oc Ns Ar n True if the difference between the file last modification time and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full minute, is more than .Ar n .Pq + Ns Ar n , less than .Ar n .Pq - Ns Ar n , or exactly .Ar n minutes ago. .It Ic -mnewer Ar file Same as .Ic -newer . .It Ic -mount The same thing as .Ic -xdev , for GNU find compatibility. .It Ic -mtime Ar n Ns Op Cm smhdw If no units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the file last modification time and the time .Nm was started, rounded up to the next full 24-hour period, is .Ar n 24-hour periods. .Pp If units are specified, this primary evaluates to true if the difference between the file last modification time and the time .Nm was started is exactly .Ar n units. Please refer to the .Ic -atime primary description for information on supported time units. .It Ic -name Ar pattern True if the last component of the pathname being examined matches .Ar pattern . Special shell pattern matching characters .Dq ( Li \&[ , .Dq Li \&] , .Dq Li * , and .Dq Li \&? ) may be used as part of .Ar pattern . These characters may be matched explicitly by escaping them with a backslash .Pq Dq Li \e . .It Ic -newer Ar file True if the current file has a more recent last modification time than .Ar file . .It Ic -newer Ns Ar X Ns Ar Y Ar file True if the current file has a more recent last access time .Pq Ar X Ns = Ns Cm a , inode creation time .Pq Ar X Ns = Ns Cm B , change time .Pq Ar X Ns = Ns Cm c , or modification time .Pq Ar X Ns = Ns Cm m than the last access time .Pq Ar Y Ns = Ns Cm a , inode creation time .Pq Ar Y Ns = Ns Cm B , change time .Pq Ar Y Ns = Ns Cm c , or modification time .Pq Ar Y Ns = Ns Cm m of .Ar file . In addition, if .Ar Y Ns = Ns Cm t , then .Ar file is instead interpreted as a direct date specification of the form understood by .Xr cvs 1 . Note that .Ic -newermm is equivalent to .Ic -newer . .It Ic -nogroup True if the file belongs to an unknown group. .It Ic -noignore_readdir_race Turn off the effect of .Ic -ignore_readdir_race . This is default behaviour. .It Ic -noleaf This option is for GNU find compatibility. In GNU find it disables an optimization not relevant to .Nm , so it is ignored. .It Ic -nouser True if the file belongs to an unknown user. .It Ic -ok Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li \&; The .Ic -ok primary is identical to the .Ic -exec primary with the exception that .Nm requests user affirmation for the execution of the .Ar utility by printing a message to the terminal and reading a response. If the response is not affirmative .Ql ( y in the .Dq Li POSIX locale), the command is not executed and the value of the .Ic -ok expression is false. .It Ic -okdir Ar utility Oo Ar argument ... Oc Li \&; The .Ic -okdir primary is identical to the .Ic -execdir primary with the same exception as described for the .Ic -ok primary. .It Ic -path Ar pattern True if the pathname being examined matches .Ar pattern . Special shell pattern matching characters .Dq ( Li \&[ , .Dq Li \&] , .Dq Li * , and .Dq Li \&? ) may be used as part of .Ar pattern . These characters may be matched explicitly by escaping them with a backslash .Pq Dq Li \e . Slashes .Pq Dq Li / are treated as normal characters and do not have to be matched explicitly. .It Ic -perm Oo Cm - Ns | Ns Cm + Oc Ns Ar mode The .Ar mode may be either symbolic (see .Xr chmod 1 ) or an octal number. If the .Ar mode is symbolic, a starting value of zero is assumed and the .Ar mode sets or clears permissions without regard to the process' file mode creation mask. If the .Ar mode is octal, only bits 07777 .Pq Dv S_ISUID | S_ISGID | S_ISTXT | S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO of the file's mode bits participate in the comparison. If the .Ar mode is preceded by a dash .Pq Dq Li - , this primary evaluates to true if at least all of the bits in the .Ar mode are set in the file's mode bits. If the .Ar mode is preceded by a plus .Pq Dq Li + , this primary evaluates to true if any of the bits in the .Ar mode are set in the file's mode bits. Otherwise, this primary evaluates to true if the bits in the .Ar mode exactly match the file's mode bits. Note, the first character of a symbolic mode may not be a dash .Pq Dq Li - . .It Ic -print This primary always evaluates to true. It prints the pathname of the current file to standard output. If none of .Ic -exec , -ls , -print0 , or .Ic -ok is specified, the given expression shall be effectively replaced by .Cm \&( Ar "given expression" Cm \&) Ic -print . .It Ic -print0 This primary always evaluates to true. It prints the pathname of the current file to standard output, followed by an .Tn ASCII .Dv NUL character (character code 0). .It Ic -prune This primary always evaluates to true. It causes .Nm to not descend into the current file. Note, the .Ic -prune primary has no effect if the .Fl d option was specified. .It Ic -quit Causes .Nm to terminate immediately. .It Ic -regex Ar pattern True if the whole path of the file matches .Ar pattern using regular expression. To match a file named .Dq Pa ./foo/xyzzy , you can use the regular expression .Dq Li ".*/[xyz]*" or .Dq Li ".*/foo/.*" , but not .Dq Li xyzzy or .Dq Li /foo/ . .It Ic -samefile Ar name True if the file is a hard link to .Ar name . If the command option .Ic -L is specified, it is also true if the file is a symbolic link and points to .Ar name . .It Ic -size Ar n Ns Op Cm ckMGTP True if the file's size, rounded up, in 512-byte blocks is .Ar n . If .Ar n is followed by a .Cm c , then the primary is true if the file's size is .Ar n bytes (characters). Similarly if .Ar n is followed by a scale indicator then the file's size is compared to .Ar n scaled as: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Cm k kilobytes (1024 bytes) .It Cm M megabytes (1024 kilobytes) .It Cm G gigabytes (1024 megabytes) .It Cm T terabytes (1024 gigabytes) .It Cm P petabytes (1024 terabytes) .El .It Ic -sparse True if the current file is sparse, i.e. has fewer blocks allocated than expected based on its size in bytes. This might also match files that have been compressed by the filesystem. .It Ic -type Ar t True if the file is of the specified type. Possible file types are as follows: .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Cm b block special .It Cm c character special .It Cm d directory .It Cm f regular file .It Cm l symbolic link .It Cm p FIFO .It Cm s socket .El .It Ic -uid Ar uname The same thing as .Ar -user Ar uname for compatibility with GNU find. GNU find imposes a restriction that .Ar uname is numeric, while .Nm does not. .It Ic -user Ar uname True if the file belongs to the user .Ar uname . If .Ar uname is numeric and there is no such user name, then .Ar uname is treated as a user ID. .It Ic -wholename Ar pattern The same thing as .Ic -path , for GNU find compatibility. .El .Sh OPERATORS The primaries may be combined using the following operators. The operators are listed in order of decreasing precedence. .Pp .Bl -tag -width indent -compact .It Cm \&( Ar expression Cm \&) This evaluates to true if the parenthesized expression evaluates to true. .Pp .It Cm \&! Ar expression .It Cm -not Ar expression This is the unary .Tn NOT operator. It evaluates to true if the expression is false. .Pp .It Cm -false Always false. .It Cm -true Always true. .Pp .It Ar expression Cm -and Ar expression .It Ar expression expression The .Cm -and operator is the logical .Tn AND operator. As it is implied by the juxtaposition of two expressions it does not have to be specified. The expression evaluates to true if both expressions are true. The second expression is not evaluated if the first expression is false. .Pp .It Ar expression Cm -or Ar expression The .Cm -or operator is the logical .Tn OR operator. The expression evaluates to true if either the first or the second expression is true. The second expression is not evaluated if the first expression is true. .El .Pp All operands and primaries must be separate arguments to .Nm . Primaries which themselves take arguments expect each argument to be a separate argument to .Nm . .Sh ENVIRONMENT The .Ev LANG , LC_ALL , LC_COLLATE , LC_CTYPE , LC_MESSAGES and .Ev LC_TIME environment variables affect the execution of the .Nm utility as described in .Xr environ 7 . .Sh EXAMPLES The following examples are shown as given to the shell: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Li "find / \e! -name \*q*.c\*q -print" Print out a list of all the files whose names do not end in .Pa .c . .It Li "find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print" Print out a list of all the files owned by user .Dq wnj that are newer than the file .Pa ttt . .It Li "find / \e! \e( -newer ttt -user wnj \e) -print" Print out a list of all the files which are not both newer than .Pa ttt and owned by .Dq wnj . .It Li "find / \e( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \e) -print" Print out a list of all the files that are either owned by .Dq wnj or that are newer than .Pa ttt . .It Li "find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print" Print out a list of all the files whose inode change time is more recent than the current time minus one minute. .It Li "find / -type f -exec echo {} \e;" Use the .Xr echo 1 command to print out a list of all the files. .It Li "find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} +" Delete all broken symbolic links in .Pa /usr/ports/packages . .It Li "find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print" Find files and directories that are at least seven levels deep in the working directory .Pa /usr/src . .It Li "find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -mindepth 7 -print" Is not equivalent to the previous example, since .Ic -prune is not evaluated below level seven. .El .Sh COMPATIBILITY The .Ic -follow primary is deprecated; the .Fl L option should be used instead. See the .Sx STANDARDS section below for details. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr chflags 1 , .Xr chmod 1 , .Xr cvs 1 , .Xr locate 1 , .Xr lsvfs 1 , .Xr whereis 1 , .Xr which 1 , .Xr xargs 1 , .Xr stat 2 , .Xr acl 3 , .Xr fts 3 , .Xr getgrent 3 , .Xr getpwent 3 , .Xr strmode 3 , .Xr re_format 7 , .Xr symlink 7 .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm utility syntax is a superset of the syntax specified by the .St -p1003.1-2001 standard. .Pp All the single character options except .Fl H and .Fl L as well as .Ic -amin , -anewer , -cmin , -cnewer , -delete , -empty , -fstype , .Ic -iname , -inum , -iregex , -ls , -maxdepth , -mindepth , -mmin , .Ic -not , -path , -print0 , -regex , -sparse and all of the .Fl B* birthtime related primaries are extensions to .St -p1003.1-2001 . .Pp Historically, the .Fl d , L and .Fl x options were implemented using the primaries .Ic -depth , -follow , and .Ic -xdev . These primaries always evaluated to true. As they were really global variables that took effect before the traversal began, some legal expressions could have unexpected results. An example is the expression .Ic -print Cm -o Ic -depth . As .Ic -print always evaluates to true, the standard order of evaluation implies that .Ic -depth would never be evaluated. This is not the case. .Pp The operator .Cm -or was implemented as .Cm -o , and the operator .Cm -and was implemented as .Cm -a . .Pp Historic implementations of the .Ic -exec and .Ic -ok primaries did not replace the string .Dq Li {} in the utility name or the utility arguments if it had preceding or following non-whitespace characters. This version replaces it no matter where in the utility name or arguments it appears. .Pp The .Fl E option was inspired by the equivalent .Xr grep 1 and .Xr sed 1 options. .Sh HISTORY A simple .Nm command appeared in .At v1 and was removed in .At v3 . It was rewritten for .At v5 and later be enhanced for the Programmer's Workbench (PWB). These changes were later incorporated in .At v7. .Sh BUGS The special characters used by .Nm are also special characters to many shell programs. In particular, the characters .Dq Li * , .Dq Li \&[ , .Dq Li \&] , .Dq Li \&? , .Dq Li \&( , .Dq Li \&) , .Dq Li \&! , .Dq Li \e and .Dq Li \&; may have to be escaped from the shell. .Pp As there is no delimiter separating options and file names or file names and the .Ar expression , it is difficult to specify files named .Pa -xdev or .Pa \&! . These problems are handled by the .Fl f option and the .Xr getopt 3 .Dq Fl Fl construct. .Pp The .Ic -delete primary does not interact well with other options that cause the file system tree traversal options to be changed. .Pp The .Ic -mindepth and .Ic -maxdepth primaries are actually global options (as documented above). They should probably be replaced by options which look like options.