On 05/03/2017 10:13 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, May 03, 2017 10:57:09 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
The man page for find confuses me.
Looking for explanatory material I found and tried to follow examples in
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind#A-prune .
I tried
find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -o -atime -42 -print
and
find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -atime -42 -print
unsuccessfully.
Each got an "find: paths must precede expression: .." error
HOW?
Can't answer your question off the top of my head, but, when I run into
problems like this, I try to run subsets of the command to try to narrow down
the problem. For example, I might first try find /home/richard--see if it works
(provides any output) and what that output looks like, then try adding
switches or other parts of the command one at a time.
*GRIN*
Been using that basic procedure since mid 1950's [when volume of single
flip-flop could be measured in cubic inches ;]
I had spent more than an hour:
1. exploring find (with and without the -atime option)
2. attempting to add -prune to the mix
That was when a series of links led to mywiki.wooledge.org .
An unknown amount of non-productive effort led to my post.
I thought I had narrowed the problem to -prune as that seemed the only
thing in common to failures was -prune.
The actual globing problem was hidden in the noise.
MEA CULPA: globs have bitten me before :{
Thanks all.
