[Novalug] find or not really or?

shawn wilson ag4ve.us@gmail.com
Tue May 19 16:55:30 EDT 2015


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Jon LaBadie via Novalug
<novalug@firemountain.net> wrote:

>
> GNU/Linux's find does process both "-name" terms, but if the
> second is false, it skips the "-print" term.
>
> Bottom line, to safely use find's -o, get in the habit of
> grouping the terms with parentheses.
>
>   $ find sub '(' -name a -o -name b ")" -print
>   sub/b
>   sub/a
>

This makes sense - thanks.

When you say "Unix find" is that Sun or OBSD?



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