Randall R Schulz wrote:
% find cdrom |wc -l find: . changed during execution of find 1
% find cdrom/* |wc -l 4238
I think what's being asked here is *why* this happens now and didn't before. (Philipp asked for a use case, and I think you just gave him one.) Telling people to "just deal with it" is not helpful. This problem can be particularly vexing if you want to do a find from somewhere pretty high up in the filesystem (in which case -xdev seems to help). -- ================================================================= Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ----------------------------------------------------------------- The one sticking point between us and the open-source community is that we actually think that compatibility matters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -James Gosling, creator of Java =================================================================