On 2020-01-29 Álvaro António Santos <aa.san...@campus.fct.unl.pt> wrote: > The man pages for find (version 4.7.0-git) say the following at the > end of the "EXPRESSION" section: > If the whole expression contains no actions other than -prune or > -print, -print is performed on all files for which the whole > expression is true.
> For the following 2 examples, assume that find is being run within a > directory whose only contents are a .git directory (which has the > "typical" .git project directory structure itself, although that's not > relevant for this discussion). > Running the following command: > find . -path "*/.git" -prune -o -true > Produces, expectedly, the following output: > . > ./.git > However, running the following command: > find . -path "*/.git" -prune -o -true -print > Produces: > . [...] Performing -print on all files for which the whole expression is true and "appending -print at the end of the find arguments" are not one and the same thing. Imho the docs are correct. find . \( -path "*/.git" -prune -o -true \) -print cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'
