Update of bug #31933 (project findutils):
Status: None => Invalid
Open/Closed: Open => Closed
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Follow-up Comment #1:
Your start point was ".". Hence all paths considered by find will be of the
form "./" followed by something else. In other words they will match the
regular expression './.*'. However, the regular expression you specified was
'.(css|png|gif)$' and that only matches filenames which have 'c', 'p' or 'g'
in the second position. Since all filenames considered by find in this
example have '/' in that position, no file names match the specified regex.
It's negated, so the negated expression is always true and hence find will
find all files.
I think you probably just misunderstood what -regex matches on:
$ PAGER="grep -A2 -e '-regex '" man find
-regex pattern
File name matches regular expression pattern. This is a
match
on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a
file
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