Can anybody explain this behavior to me?
I'm searching for files that contain the string "LockFile" in them. I know of
one place where it exists already... But the following command only returns
one result, which is not the result I already knew existed.
Edwards-MacBook-Pro:mono eharvey$ find . -name '*.cs' -or -name '*.c' -or -name
'*.h' -exec grep -l LockFile {} \;
./mono/io-layer/io.h
So why did it only return one result? Just to prove I know the file I know,
and I haven't made a type-o or anything, I specifically repeat the grep command
on that specific file:
Edwards-MacBook-Pro:mono eharvey$ grep -l LockFile ./mono/metadata/file-io.c
./mono/metadata/file-io.c
And indeed, I've confirmed, that file does contain the "LockFile" string. It's
not a type-o. So then I wonder if I messed up the find command, perhaps it's
not actually searching all the *.cs and *.c and *.h files? To confirm this, I
just want to ensure find is actually executing on that particular file:
Edwards-MacBook-Pro:mono eharvey$ find . -name '*.cs' -or -name '*.c' -or -name
'*.h' | grep file-io.c
./mono/metadata/file-io.c
And I see that it *is* executing on that file. So now I'm stumped. Why didn't
the original find command identify file-io.c as one of the search results?
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