[UFO Chicago] find command problem

[kannaiah at bsd.uchicago.edu]

here is the "uname -a" info

$>Linux ccapps 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jun 30 10:32:04 EDT 2006 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am ordering my own Unix power tools book. Thanks for the suggestion.

-Kiran


Quoting Brian Sobolak <brian at planetshwoop.com>:

> 
> Kiran Annaiah wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Anybody encounter such a problem while running "find" command?
> > I ran the command as:
> >
> > [root at ccapps /]#  find / -name "gcc" -print
> > find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /: this may be a bug in your
> > filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
> > Earlier
> > results may have failed to include directories that should have been
> > searched.
> >
> >
> > The command runs fine after throwing that warning.
> >
> >
> > Is there a way to get rid of that? Should i be installing a different
> > version
> > of the "find" command?
> 
> It seems like there isn't a problem with find, the problem is kernel
> related.  The Linux Kernel mailing list has some details.
> 
>
<http://www.google.com/search?q=Hard+link+count+is+wrong+for+%2F&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official>
> 
> > Also, if i need to install any linux utilities - which would be a good
> > site to
> > get them from? Is there a site with a comprehensive list of all the unix
> > command utilities?
> 
> There are probably like 200,000 sites.  Actually installing them is
> usually highly OS-dependant because they can be tied to the kernel
> version.  Type 'uname -a' and send it back to the list and we can offer
> suggestions.
> 
> As for a general resource for learning the command line, I'd highly
> recommend O'Reilly's "Unix Power Tools" book.  That's where I learned
> goodness like !!, $$, Ctrl-R, backticks, and an explanation of find that
> was quite lovely.  IT's not cheap ($70), but well worth it.
> 
> They have a sample chapter online:
> 
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/chapter/ch28.pdf>
> 
> 
> brian
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Brian Sobolak
> http://www.planetshwoop.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 





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