Why use find? (Was: Can U pipe filenames to rm???)

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Oct7.001518.14216 at diku.dk> kimcm at diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
>cpcahil at virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>>This is getting into a typical religous issue, so I won't say much in
>>response other than the fact that if someone knows enough about the system
>>to creat shell scripts and/or programs it behooves them to take an 
>>extra few minutes to learn find.
>
>How about grouping selection criterias and the precedence of the -a and
>-o (and & or) operators when grouping selection criterias ???

For the life of me I couldn't tell you the precedence of any of the 
operators, but I still use them all the time.  If there is any question 
about the precedence (and I have questions about it anytime i use -o) I
just add "(" and ")" to get what I want.


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