On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 17:39 -0600, home user via users wrote:
On 3/26/25 4:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 15:47 -0600, home user via users wrote:
A co-worker back in the late 1980's gave that "find" line. I'm curious: did "grep" have the -r option back then?
Maybe my memory is faulty but I don't remember grep ever not having the '-r' option and I've been using it since the 1970s. In fact xargs hasn't been around forever (though it's pretty old) and is certainly younger than grep.
poc
ok. Thank-you. Hmmm... Unix really does go that far back. Linux goes back to 1991 according to wikipedia.
I started using UNIX in 1976. That was the "5th Edition", which relatively few people outside Bell Labs ever saw. Not to be confused with the later System V.
poc