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Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] -a and true/false for expressions
Date: Friday, 04 Sep 2020, 07:37:31


    > Message Posted By: Unknown
    >
    > If there are multiple flags in our expression (i.e. -maxdepth and -name),
    > and no operator is given, do we use -a?

Yes.

Aside:  As you can verify by running Hwk1/fiend or
/bin/find, separating the flags by -a gives a warning.
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    > Also, when it says a given tests which can "tests (-name and -newer),
    > which return true or false", does that mean it returns true or false for
    > each file/subdirectory that is in the directory?

Yes, the tests are evaluated for each file visited.

--Stan-
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