Re^2: Bloated File Detector for Unix Boxes

Hi merlyn, The -depth flag is just a personal preference -- It traverses the directory's contents before searching the directory itself. There are ways to fine-tune find, to tell it how many directories deep you want it to go. -maxdepth and -mindepth, iirc.

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Re^3: Bloated File Detector for Unix Boxes by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 15, 2005 at 20:20 UTC
I'd understand it as a preference if it in fact did something useful for your application here. But it does nothing. It's like throwing "/o" on the end of a regular expression that contains no variables. It's pointless. That's why I wondered why you did it. You're doing nothing. It'd be like having an extra variable declared, and initializing it, only to never use it again in your program. You're going to extra work to do something that does nothign. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^4: Bloated File Detector for Unix Boxes by bpoag (Monk) on Mar 18, 2005 at 16:55 UTC
Ahha, I misunderstood you. You are correct--there is no functional difference between having -depth, and not having it. Good catch! :)	[reply]