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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Find: missing argument to `-mtime' Post 303042770 by RudiC on Monday 6th of January 2020 11:09:12 AM
Old 01-06-2020
Exactly what rbatte1 predicted
Quote:
the shell where you are running the command has expanded file*.log
is happening: $2 is becoming the second file found / expanded to.
 

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

NAME
findorule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Object::Rule USAGE
findorule [path...] [expression] DESCRIPTION
"findorule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Object::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::Object::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want. Extra bonus switches findorule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Object::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those would be. AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa Adapted to File::Find::Object::Rule by Shlomi Fish (all copyrights disclaimed). 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::Object::Rule perl v5.14.2 2012-05-05 FINDORULE(1p)
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