findorule (1) Linux Manual Page
findorule – command line wrapper to File::Find::Object::Rule
Usage
findorule [path…] [expression]
Description
"findorule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the File::Find::Object::Rule heirarchy of modules.The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument. If the argument is an opening parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis.
Some examples:
find -file -name ( foo bar )files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory.
find -file -name foo -barfiles named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current directory.
find -file -name ( -bar )files named "-bar", below the current directory. In this case if we’d have omitted the parenthesis it would have parsed as a call to name with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar.
Supported switches
I’m very slack. Please consult the File::Find::Object::Rule manpage for now, and prepend – to the commands that you want.Extra bonus switches
findorule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Object::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation to see what those would be.Author
Richard Clamp <richardc [at] unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa Adapted to File::Find::Object::Rule by Shlomi Fish (all copyrights disclaimed).
Copyright
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.