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 Originator Name: Originator Email: Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: None Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?49453> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/