find with -print0 returns incorrect results

Razvan RACASANU razvanracasanu at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 08:02:47 UTC 2007


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.

Thanks,
Razvan RACASANU




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