URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49453>
Summary: find man page erroneous example
Project: findutils
Submitted by: andreyhsiao
Submitted on: Thu 27 Oct 2016 04:00:28 AM GMT
Category: documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
Below example does not return expected results from the find man page EXAMPLES
section.
"""
find repo/ -exec test -d {}/.svn \; -or \
-exec test -d {}/.git \; -or -exec test -d {}/CVS \; \
-print -prune
Given the following directory of projects and their associated SCM
administrative directories, perform an efficient search for the projects'
roots:
repo/project1/CVS
repo/gnu/project2/.svn
repo/gnu/project3/.svn
repo/gnu/project3/src/.svn
repo/project4/.git
"""
The command won't work as expected since 'and' has higher precedence than
'or'.
Adding the parentheses should fix the issue.
find repo/ \( -exec test -d {}/.svn \; -or \
-exec test -d {}/.git \; -or -exec test -d {}/CVS \; \) \
-print -prune
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