Re: Interaction between -o and the default-print

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-11-01 James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote:
[...]
> $ find . -ls -mindepth 3  >/dev/null
> find: warning: you have specified the -mindepth option after a non-option 
> argument -ls, but options are not positional (-mindepth affects tests 
> specified before it as well as those specified after it).  Please specify 
> options before other arguments.
[...]
> I do wonder though if this attempt to be helpful will simply be
> irritating.  However, there are a couple of defect reports that have
> been raised which would have been avoided if this error message had
> been implemented.   Some people do seem to assume that things like 

>  find . \( -name foo -print \) -o \( -mindepth 2 -type d -print \) 

> will work, and print out instances of "foo" which are in the current
> directory.

Hello,
While both is true I currently tend to "a lot more irritating than
useful".

find is used in countless scripts including lots of cronjobs and I
suspect lots of them would trigger this warning (Resulting in
a useless mail for every cronjob). (And yes I've already found a
instance after a single day.)

How about a -debug and asking people to use it before submitting a
bugreport?
   cu and- just my 2c -reas
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