[Novalug] Fwd: find or not really or?

James Ewing Cottrell, III jecottrell3@comcast.net
Tue May 19 18:01:45 EDT 2015


It Certainly Does. Try: find /etc -type d -o -ls

JIM

----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Jon LaBadie via Novalug" <novalug@firemountain.net>


Based on my experience with UNIX find, I was going to explain that find
evaluates its terms from left to right for a true/false evaluation.
It stops processing the terms after any "false" and does not look-ahead
to see the "OR" term.  



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