Why is a parameter in the POSIX find command added with a single hyphen for multi-character parameter names, while most other programs use single hyphen to indicate multiple single-character flags, and double-hyphens to indicate single parameter names with multiple characters?
While answering an older question it struck me that it seems find, in the following example, potentially would process files multiple times:
I have a directory, containing a lot of files and directories.
I’m trying to merge two directory trees that have many common elements but also each have elements that are only present in one of the two trees. The main issue I am having is that when mv encounters two sub-directories with the same relative paths it either keeps the source (with -f) or the destination (with -n) but I can’t make it take the union of both sub-directories. I could of course use rsync with --remove-source-files but this will actually copy the data and then delete the old files as opposed to a true move. The two directory trees contain several hundred GB of data and are both on same partition so I would love to do a true move if possible for the sake of time.
I tried this:
I want to find list of all suid binaries. I use the command
Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte comparison.
I would like to search for files that would not match 2 -name conditions. I can do it like so :
I can’t for the life of me figure out how find with the test -name works.
Suppose I have a directory structure as follows