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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by xcdzvyn on Thursday May 25, 2023 @07:01AM (#36069187)
That's a little inflammatory. Could you provide constructive input on your reasoning behind that statement? I personally found it a simple, concise explanation of what find is for.
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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by 400thecat on Thursday May 25, 2023 @09:13AM (#36070305)
imagine you don't know how find works or what it does. Does that sentence make any sense?
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Re:I Didn’t Learn Unix by Reading All the Manpages by vulcan01 on Thursday May 25, 2023 @11:25AM (#36071956)
Yes. A few seconds of thinking does the trick.

"file hierarchy" - Something to do with my file organization?

"walk" - Most programmers are familiar with trees.

Oh, we are walking through the file tree!

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