Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)
Message-ID: <1990Oct07.122458.15362@virtech.uucp>
Date: 7 Oct 90 12:24:58 GMT
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Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct7.001518.14216@diku.dk> kimcm@diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
>cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>>This is getting into a typical religous issue, so I won't say much in
>>response other than the fact that if someone knows enough about the system
>>to creat shell scripts and/or programs it behooves them to take an 
>>extra few minutes to learn find.
>
>How about grouping selection criterias and the precedence of the -a and
>-o (and & or) operators when grouping selection criterias ???

For the life of me I couldn't tell you the precedence of any of the 
operators, but I still use them all the time.  If there is any question 
about the precedence (and I have questions about it anytime i use -o) I
just add "(" and ")" to get what I want.


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