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Old 03-26-2013
Making big find command more human readable

This does not work. One line works but my pattern are about 100 characters long and it is messy to read. When I try to use several lines it does not two'

Code:
find "$inputDirectory" \( -name 'very long pattern1'
                       -o -name 'very long pattern2'
                       -o -name 'very long pattern3'
                       -o -name 'very long pattern4' \) > file

Code:
 find: invalid expression; I was expecting to find a ')' somewhere but did not see one.

Mike

---------- Post updated at 04:29 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:19 PM ----------

Nevermind! I have forgotten so much . . .

Code:
find "$inputDirectory" \( -name 'very long pattern1' \
                       -o -name 'very long pattern2' \
                       -o -name 'very long pattern3' \
                       -o -name 'very long pattern4' \) > file

Mike
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Old 03-27-2013
Thanks for posting the solution.
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