find lacks the option -printf, now what?

Question

I have not found a reason why Mac\'s find does not have the option -printf. Apple normally decides to take options out which are not orthogonal to the other commands?

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Answer 1

Ubuntu ships with the GNU version of find, which is more featureful than Mac OS X's find, which is of BSD lineage.

In fact, most of the Ubuntu's user-land utilities are from the GNU project. (Thus you'll sometimes hear Linux-based systems referred to as "GNU/Linux".)