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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Warning using 'find'. Post 302994611 by bakunin on Saturday 25th of March 2017 06:15:10 AM

03-25-2017

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It is a - quite common - misconception to think that files/directories which names start with a dot are somehow special. They are not. In fact the only "special treatment" they receive is by the ls-command which does not display them as long as the option -a (display them anyway) is not given.

For all other commands (including find) directories and/or filenames starting with a dot a just as normal as all the others. If you want to exclude them from your result set you have to take specific precautions to filter them out. For the same reason:

Code:

rm ..

might not do what you wanted/expected it to do, but syntactically the command is OK and - given the right privileges - will do what it is supposed to do (which, again, might not be what you wanted, but that is another problem).

I hope this helps.

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ff_ufs

ff_ufs(1M)						  System Administration Commands						ff_ufs(1M)

NAME

       ff_ufs - list file names and statistics for a ufs file system

SYNOPSIS

       ff -F ufs [generic_options] [ -o a,m,s] special...

DESCRIPTION

       ff prints the pathnames and inode numbers of files in the file system which resides on the special device special.

       See  ff(1M) for information regarding the ff command. See OPTIONS for information regarding the ufs-specific options.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -o	Specify ufs file system specific options. The following options available are:

		a	 Print the `.' and `..' directory entries.

		m	 Print mode information.  This option must be specified in conjunction with the -i i-node-list option (see ff(1M)).

		s	 Print only special files and files with set-user-ID mode.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       find(1), ff(1M), ncheck(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    10 Feb 1997 							ff_ufs(1M)