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25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>

Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 06:02:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 25.2

Done: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> suse.de>
To: Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe>
Cc: 27456 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27456: 25.2; Not possible to use -prune with find-dired
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:32:50 +0200

On Jun 22 2017, Allen Li <darkfeline <at> felesatra.moe> wrote:

> It is not possible to effectively use the -prune action with find-dired.
>
> With plain find, -prune would be used like:
>
>     find . -name "foo*" -prune -o -name "*.el" -ls

You can use the comma operator instead of -o, so that the left operand
is only evaluated for its side effect (of -prune).

Andreas.

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