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From: | Ilkka Virta |
Subject: | Re: Wrong command option in the manual examples |
Date: | Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:29:18 +0300 |
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On 22.9. 21:15, Chet Ramey wrote:
On 9/20/19 10:24 PM, hk wrote:Bash Version: 5.0 Patch Level: 0 Release Status: release Description: On the section 3.2.6(GNU Parallel, page 16 in the pdf) of Bash Reference Manual. The manual uses `find' command to illustrate possible use cases of `parallel' as examples. but the option `-depth' does not accept any argument, I think it means `-maxdepth` option instead.-depth n True if the depth of the file relative to the starting point of the traversal is n. It's not in POSIX, and maybe GNU find doesn't implement it.
That seems to raise a question.Isn't Bash a GNU project? Would it be prudent to use other GNU tools in examples, if standard POSIX features aren't sufficient? I can see that FreeBSD find has '-depth n' (as well the standard '-depth', somewhat confusingly) but should the reader of the manual be assumed to know the options supported by BSD utilities?
-- Ilkka Virta / itvirta@iki.fi
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