On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:37:01PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  | In article <20030722012022.A14189@noc.untraceable.net>,
  | Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net> wrote:
  | >i was thinking of of rearranging stat(1)'s source code a little so
  | >that other programs could include the formatting code with very little
  | >difficulty.
  | >
  | >one such candidate would be find(1), so that you could do things like:
  | >
  | >	find . -type f -stat "%m %N" | sort -n | tail -5
  | >
  | >for example, and find the five newest files under a given directory.
  | >there would, of course, be a -stat0 operator, and these would satisfy
  | >the "print something by default" requirement that find asserts.
  | >
  | >it's terribly non-standard, of course, but it might also terribly
  | >useful.
  | >
  | >comments?  opinions?  criticisms?  flames?
  | 
  | I like it... What's next -lstat?

Wouldn't that be controlled by -H, -L, -P, and -h  ?

(BTW: stat(1) would really be like "find -lstat", given the former's
behaviour...)