Re: find utility

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Ronald E Pucul <address@hidden> wrote:
> With command
>     find . ( -name "*.jnk" -or -name "*.junk" ) -print
> I get the following err msg
>    Badly placed ()'s.

Pilot error. You have to escape '(' and ')' from interpretation by the
shell (yours seems to be a of the C-shell variety, judging by the
error message you got). The following would have worked:

   find . \( -name "*.jnk" -or -name "*.junk" \) -print

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