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find -printf on Mac (-printf unknown option)

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Problem

I have a little bit of code that I use to get an MD5 sum of the most recently modified file time I use it for generating unique keys for my CDN files, the logic behind this is if a file changes the key changes so the files are un-cached and reloaded. Anyway, when I try to run that on my Mac I get t…

Error Output

find ./media -type f -printf "%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p \n" | sort | more | tail -1 | md5 -r | awk '{print $1}'

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Fix for: find -printf on Mac (-printf unknown option)

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is specific to GNU find and not available on OS X's by default. Install findutils on your Mac, e.g. using Homebrew using the following command: You can alternatively use Macports or Fink, they likely also have this package available. To actually use…

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