Question

Even after installing via brew findutils on mac I keep getting a very very nasty

 find: -printf: unknown option" 

when passing this line on bash

"find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -name "*.html" -type f -printf '%T@ %p\0' "

what works fine on linux

Can you please please please help in finding and alternative or understand why, even with findutils mac osx is letting me down big time ?
Ta muchly and a lot of love and happiness for whomever replies !!!!

Answer 1

The built-in find binary doesn’t support the -printf command. This is what you’re executing. Try running type find and you’ll probably see find is /usr/bin/find.

I believe your problem here is that brew install findutils actually prefixes all of the installed programs with the letter g, so what you want is gfind instead of find.