From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.4] fix find to not stumble over BK
Date: 17 Jul 2002 02:40:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1026870033.1688.116.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020716170821.A8462@work.bitmover.com>
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 01:08, Larry McVoy wrote:
> Note that common usage
>
> find . -name '*.[chS]' | whatever
>
> becomes
>
> find . -name SCCS -prune -o -name BitKeeper -prune -o \
> -name '*.[chS]' -print | whatever
> ^^^^^^
>
> The -print is needed or find will produce nothing, it's now multiple clauses.
The -print is not needed. See IEEE Std 1003.1-2001
If no expression is present, -print shall be used as the expression.
Otherwise, if the given expression does not contain any of the primaries
-exec, -ok, or -print, the given expression shall be effectively
replaced by:
( given_expression ) -print
Alan the pedantic
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-17 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-17 0:08 Larry McVoy
2002-07-17 1:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-07-17 2:05 ` [OT] -print argument to find (was [PATCH for 2.4] fix find to not stumble over BK) Chris Wedgwood
2002-07-17 15:41 ` jlnance
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