find2perl(1)

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NAME

6       find2perl - translate find command lines to Perl code
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SYNOPSIS

9               find2perl [paths] [predicates] | perl
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DESCRIPTION

12       find2perl is a little translator to convert find command lines to
13       equivalent Perl code.  The resulting code is typically faster than
14       running find itself.
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16       "paths" are a set of paths where find2perl will start its searches and
17       "predicates" are taken from the following list.
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19       "! PREDICATE"
20           Negate the sense of the following predicate.  The "!" must be
21           passed as a distinct argument, so it may need to be surrounded by
22           whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a
23           backslash (just as with using find(1)).
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25       "( PREDICATES )"
26           Group the given PREDICATES.  The parentheses must be passed as
27           distinct arguments, so they may need to be surrounded by whitespace
28           and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash
29           (just as with using find(1)).
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31       "PREDICATE1 PREDICATE2"
32           True if _both_ PREDICATE1 and PREDICATE2 are true; PREDICATE2 is
33           not evaluated if PREDICATE1 is false.
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35       "PREDICATE1 -o PREDICATE2"
36           True if either one of PREDICATE1 or PREDICATE2 is true; PREDICATE2
37           is not evaluated if PREDICATE1 is true.
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39       "-follow"
40           Follow (dereference) symlinks.  The checking of file attributes
41           depends on the position of the "-follow" option. If it precedes the
42           file check option, an "stat" is done which means the file check
43           applies to the file the symbolic link is pointing to. If "-follow"
44           option follows the file check option, this now applies to the
45           symbolic link itself, i.e.  an "lstat" is done.
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47       "-depth"
48           Change directory traversal algorithm from breadth-first to depth-
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51       "-prune"
52           Do not descend into the directory currently matched.
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54       "-xdev"
55           Do not traverse mount points (prunes search at mount-point
56           directories).
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58       "-name GLOB"
59           File name matches specified GLOB wildcard pattern.  GLOB may need
60           to be quoted to avoid interpretation by the shell (just as with
61           using find(1)).
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63       "-iname GLOB"
64           Like "-name", but the match is case insensitive.
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66       "-path GLOB"
67           Path name matches specified GLOB wildcard pattern.
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69       "-ipath GLOB"
70           Like "-path", but the match is case insensitive.
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72       "-perm PERM"
73           Low-order 9 bits of permission match octal value PERM.
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75       "-perm -PERM"
76           The bits specified in PERM are all set in file's permissions.
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78       "-type X"
79           The file's type matches perl's "-X" operator.
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81       "-fstype TYPE"
82           Filesystem of current path is of type TYPE (only NFS/non-NFS
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85       "-user USER"
86           True if USER is owner of file.
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88       "-group GROUP"
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91       "-nouser"
92           True if file's owner is not in password database.
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94       "-nogroup"
95           True if file's group is not in group database.
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97       "-inum INUM"
98           True file's inode number is INUM.
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100       "-links N"
101           True if (hard) link count of file matches N (see below).
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103       "-size N"
104           True if file's size matches N (see below) N is normally counted in
105           512-byte blocks, but a suffix of "c" specifies that size should be
106           counted in characters (bytes) and a suffix of "k" specifies that
107           size should be counted in 1024-byte blocks.
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109       "-atime N"
110           True if last-access time of file matches N (measured in days) (see
111           below).
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113       "-ctime N"
114           True if last-changed time of file's inode matches N (measured in
115           days, see below).
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117       "-mtime N"
118           True if last-modified time of file matches N (measured in days, see
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121       "-newer FILE"
122           True if last-modified time of file matches N.
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124       "-print"
125           Print out path of file (always true). If none of "-exec", "-ls",
126           "-print0", or "-ok" is specified, then "-print" will be added
127           implicitly.
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129       "-print0"
130           Like -print, but terminates with \0 instead of \n.
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132       "-exec OPTIONS ;"
133           exec() the arguments in OPTIONS in a subprocess; any occurrence of
134           {} in OPTIONS will first be substituted with the path of the
135           current file.  Note that the command "rm" has been special-cased to
136           use perl's unlink() function instead (as an optimization).  The ";"
137           must be passed as a distinct argument, so it may need to be
138           surrounded by whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the
139           shell using a backslash (just as with using find(1)).
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141       "-ok OPTIONS ;"
142           Like -exec, but first prompts user; if user's response does not
143           begin with a y, skip the exec.  The ";" must be passed as a
144           distinct argument, so it may need to be surrounded by whitespace
145           and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash
146           (just as with using find(1)).
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148       "-eval EXPR"
149           Has the perl script eval() the EXPR.
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151       "-ls"
152           Simulates "-exec ls -dils {} ;"
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154       "-tar FILE"
155           Adds current output to tar-format FILE.
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157       "-cpio FILE"
158           Adds current output to old-style cpio-format FILE.
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160       "-ncpio FILE"
161           Adds current output to "new"-style cpio-format FILE.
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163       Predicates which take a numeric argument N can come in three forms:
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165          * N is prefixed with a +: match values greater than N
166          * N is prefixed with a -: match values less than N
167          * N is not prefixed with either + or -: match only values equal to N
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