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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by ahartmetz on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:11PM (#24522751)
Actually close to 12 years, GNU tar 1.21 https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

Another "recent" (much more recent IIRC) change is that you don't need the dot anymore in find to search in the current directory.

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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by Hello71 on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:39PM (#24522941)
according to https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/find/..., this functionality has been present since findutils was moved under source control in 1996.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by jfrunyon on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:17AM (#24550788)
I believe that GNU find used to (in some cases?) show a warning if the directory was omitted. Could be wrong.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by mehrdadn on Friday September 18, 2020 @08:48PM (#24523635)
I think the dot actually gives you issues on Mac? Or something like that. I remember encountering issues with it.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by taejo on Saturday September 19, 2020 @04:24AM (#24526044)
You have to specify a directory for the find on Mac; it's only a GNUism to omit it.
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Re:Use long flags when scripting (2013) by mehrdadn on Saturday September 19, 2020 @06:34AM (#24526455)
Oh I see, I got it backwards somehow. Thanks!
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