Re: [PATCH Cogito] cg-init breaks if . contains sub-dir

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: May 12, 2005, 18:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20050512185358.GB324@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050510075227.GA8176@lug-owl.de>

Dear diary, on Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:52:27AM CEST, I got a letter where Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> told me that...

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> On Tue, 2005-05-10 01:17:31 -0400, Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> wrote:
> > But it can handle symlinks:
> > 
> > 	find * -type f -o -type l -print0 | xargs -0r cg-add
> 
> This won't work because the explicit OR (-o) lower precedence compared
> to the implicit AND between "-type l" and "-print0", thus this find
> command will do print0 IFF the matched entry is a symlink. Use something
> like this instead:
> 
> 	find * \( -type f -o tyle l \) -print0 | ...

Thanks to all the four co-authors, applied.

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