find with -print0 returns incorrect results
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Tue Dec 11 19:47:17 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 10:02 +0200, Razvan RACASANU wrote:
> On Dec 10, 2007 11:52 PM, Rick Stevens <rstevens at internap.com> wrote:
> >
> > No. Remember, -print0 prints immediately, so the only test that was
> > applied before the print was "-type f" in the first one. In the second
> > one, you did the "-iname" tests. Since they fail on the "a.css" file,
> > the -print0 wasn't invoked for that file.
>
> Thanks a lot. As I originally understood it, -print0 was just another
> test, so the evaluation order should not have mattered in that case,
> but now it makes perfect sense.
Glad to hear it. BTW, the evaluation order is significant with an
optimized system. In a chain of "ands" such as "a and b and c", if a is
true and b is false, there's no reason to even evaluate c, since the
proposition is already false. Most systems take advantage of that to
speed execution. Yes, it technically violates Boole's laws, but what
the heck?
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