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diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1 index 544778e4..671e3260 100644 --- a/find/find.1 +++ b/find/find.1 @@ -2606,6 +2606,27 @@ or may not have been performed. . .SH "HISTORY" + +A +.B find +program appeared in Version 5 Unix as part of the +Programmer's Workbench project and was written by Dick Haight. Doug +McIlroy's +.I A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmer’s Manual, 1971-1986 +provides some additional details; you can read it on-line at +<https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf>. + +GNU +.B find +was originally written by Eric Decker, with +enhancements by David MacKenzie, Jay Plett, and Tim Wood. The idea +for +.B find -print0 +and +.B xargs -0 +came from Dan Bernstein. +. +.SH "COMPATIBILITY" As of findutils-4.2.2, shell metacharacters (`*', `?' or `[]' for example) used in filename patterns match a leading `.', because IEEE POSIX interpretation 126 requires this. |