djm@AI.MIT.EDU (11/22/90)
Archive-name: gnu-find/21-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: djm@AI.MIT.EDU Original-subject: GNU find 2.0 released. Archive-site: prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] Archive-directory: /pub/gnu Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) GNU find 2.0 is now available by anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] in the file pub/gnu/find-2.0.tar.Z. The main new features in this release are: * xargs is now included. * New predicate -print0 to print the path terminated by a null character instead of a newline; xargs has a -0 option to read null-terminated filenames. The idea for this came from Dan Bernstein in a discussion in comp.unix.shell. It prevents xargs from working incorrectly on filenames that contain whitespace or quotes. * -fstype works on more versions of Unix. * -fstype works in the presence of automounters. * New predicate -follow causes symbolic links to be dereferenced. * New predicate -maxdepth N causes only N levels of directories to be searched. * comes with roffable man pages.