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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
Cc: 27456@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27456: 25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:40:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874luhxx3r.fsf@drachen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k243qm3z.fsf@felesatra.moe> (Allen Li's message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:00:48 -0700")

Hi Allen,

> It is not possible to effectively use the -prune action with
> find-dired.

I think I can use it successfully.

> With plain find, -prune would be used like:
>
>     find . -name "foo*" -prune -o -name "*.el" -ls
>
> However, find-dired wraps everything:
>
>     (find-dired "." "-name \\"foo*\\" -prune -o -name \\"*.el\\" -ls")

I get an error when I try to eval this.  I think the backslashes should
not be doubled.

> results in the equivalent call:
>
>     find . \( -name "foo*" -prune -o -name "*.el" -ls \) -ls
>
> Notably, this will list files matching foo*

Can't you just leave out the explicit -ls in the arguments?

Also, AFAIK "-prune" is about descending into directories, not about
file names.


Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-12 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-23  6:00 bug#27456: 25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired Allen Li
2017-07-12 19:40 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2017-07-13  6:56   ` Allen Li
2017-07-19  0:21     ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-07-13  7:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-09-09  0:35 ` Allen Li
2018-09-09  2:39   ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-09  5:22     ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-09  5:32       ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-09  9:38         ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-09 11:49           ` Phil Sainty
2018-09-09 14:04           ` bug#32668: " Drew Adams

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