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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Understand the importance of -depth option in find command. Post 302914684 by junior-helper on Wednesday 27th of August 2014 10:12:57 AM
Old 08-27-2014
Referring to the find manpage, -depth is an option while -mtime and -name are tests.
This section (also from the find manpage) describes the "problem with the position of -depth" pretty good, imho. Hope this helps.
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   OPTIONS
       All options always return true.   Except  for  -daystart,  -follow  and
       -regextype,  the  options  affect  all tests, including tests specified
       before the option.  This is because the options are processed when  the
       command  line  is parsed, while the tests don't do anything until files
       are examined.  The -daystart, -follow and -regextype options  are  dif‐
       ferent  in  this respect, and have an effect only on tests which appear
       later in the command line.  Therefore, for clarity, it is best to place
       them  at  the  beginning of the expression.  A warning is issued if you
       don't do this.

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SPECRB(1)																 SPECRB(1)

NAME
specrb - standalone test runner for test/spec and Test::Unit test suites SYNOPSIS
specrb [OPTIONS] [FILES | -a ] [-- untouched arguments] DESCRIPTION
The Ruby script specrb allows you to run tests written with test/spec from the command line. It can also be used for plain Test::Unit test suites. You can either specify the names of the test files you want to run, or let specrb find automatically all the tests in your project, by using the -a switch (see TEST/SPEC OPTIONS below). You can also use various options on the command line to pass parameters to the Ruby interpreterm or to modify the behavior of test/spec and/or test/unit. RUBY OPTIONS
-e, --eval LINE evaluate a LINE of code -d, --debug set debugging flags (set $DEBUG to true) -w, --warn turn warnings on for your script -I, --include PATH specify $LOAD_PATH (may be used more than once) -r, --require LIBRARY require the LIBRARY, before executing your script TEST
/SPEC OPTIONS: -s, --specdox do AgileDox-like output --rdox do AgileDox-like output with RDoc formatting -a, --automatic gather tests from ./test/, include ./lib/ TEST
::UNIT OPTIONS: -n, --name NAME runs tests matching regexp NAME -t, --testcase TESTCASE runs tests in TestCases matching regexp TESTCASE COMMON OPTIONS
: -h, --help show a message similar to this manpage --version show version AUTHORS
The test/spec library has been written by Christian Neukirchen <http://purl.org/net/chneukirchen>. This manual page, inspired by the help message of specrb, has been written for the Debian Project by Cedric Boutillier (but may used by others). 2012-06-26 SPECRB(1)
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