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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find command listing Post 302722051 by Don Cragun on Friday 26th of October 2012 09:30:16 AM
Old 10-26-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by radoulov
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
[...]
Also note that the find command you provided in your 1st posting on this thread:
Code:
find -name *.WAV

is using a non-standard extension I've never seen before. On standard versions of the find utility, the first argument to the find utility would have to be the name of a directory.
[...]
Just to add that GNU find defaults to the current directory if no path(s) is/are given (man 1 find):

Code:
$ find --version
GNU find version 4.2.27

Code:
OPTIONS
       The  '-H', '-L' and '-P' options control the treatment of symbolic links.  Command-line arguments following these
       are taken to be names of files or directories to be examined, up to the first argument that begins with '-', '(',
       ')', ',', or '!'.  That argument and any following arguments are taken to be the expression describing what is to
       be searched for.  If no paths are given, the current directory is used.  If no expression is given,  the  expres-
       sion '-print' is used (but you should probably consider using '-print0' instead, anyway).

Thanks for the information.

I perform the vast majority of my programming on OS X, so running the commandman 1 findwill not provide the text that you quoted from the find man page you'll find on a Linux system.

For the record, on OS X (and I imagine on BSD and most UNIX-branded systems) that command line writes diagnostic messages similar to:
Code:
find: illegal option -- n
find: illegal option -- a
find: illegal option -- m
find: illegal option -- e
find: *.WAV: No such file or directory

to standard error and exits with exit code 1.
 

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FINDRULE(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      FINDRULE(1p)

NAME

       findrule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule

USAGE

	 findrule [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION

       "findrule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Rule heirarchy of
       modules.

       The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument.  If the argument is an opening
       parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis.

       Some examples:

	find -file -name ( foo bar )

       files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory.

	find -file -name foo -bar

       files named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current directory.

	find -file -name ( -bar )

       files named "-bar", below the current directory.  In this case if we'd have omitted the parenthesis it would have parsed as a call to name
       with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar.

   Supported switches
       I'm very slack.	Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want.

   Extra bonus switches
       findrule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those
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AUTHOR

       Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       File::Find::Rule

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