wow, i think i got a bit further with that...
but isnt the "#!/bin/bash" part ignored anyways, since it starts with an "#"??

well anyways, i installed bash and modified it to read /usr/pkg/bin/
bash... then i get 

find: -printf: unknown option

so i just use "-print" instead and now it comes up with 

find: \r%P: unknown option

"-printx" returns with the same message...
i hope i am not bugging the hell out of all you guys :))
and does the "$ROOTDIR" refer to the processes' owners home dir? and if
yes, can i just specify a different path for where to start the decend?

thx a bunch...

Jojo

>> #!/bin/bash
>> if [ $# != 0 ]; then
>>   x=$1; shift; for i in $@; do x="$x $i"; done
>>   exec /usr/bin/find $ROOTDIR -follow -name "$x" -printf "\r%P"
>> else
>>   exec /usr/bin/find $ROOTDIR -follow -printf "\r%P"
>> fi
>
>> am i correct that this is for the bash shell?
>
>Yes.  Or at least, it's for /bin/bash, which presumably is supposed to
>be bash.  However, I don't see anything on a quick read that wouldn't
>work with our sh.
>
>However, the shell is not the only projblem: it also depends on
>/usr/bin/find having a -printf option, which ours doesn't, at least not
>as of the version I have handy (which admittedly is a bit over a year
>old).
>
>> i was wondering if anyone here is up for the task of making this a
>> script for tcsh
>
>tcsh isn't installed by default either, is it? :-)  Looks to me as
>though just changing /bin/bash to /bin/sh in the #! line should make it
>work, as far as the shell is concerned.  You will still have problems
>with find, though; there's -printf, as I mentioned above, and it also
>appears to expect -name to take multiple space-sseparated arguments.
>It also does so in a bizarre way; I don't understand why it doesn't
>just
>
>if [ $# != 0 ]; then
>  exec /usr/bin/find $ROOTDIR -follow -name "$*" -printf "\r%P"
>else
>
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