Re: find with -print0 returns incorrect results

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On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:27:19PM +0200, Razvan RACASANU wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some problems using find with -print0: it is returning
> different files depending on the position of -print0.

Yes, position matters in find. Think of -print0 of just another test.

> To illustrate this, suppose the current directory has 3 files: a.html,
> a.css and a.js. From this directory I would like to list the file
> names of all html and js files, but not those of css files.
> 
> If I try this:
>     find . -type f -print0 -iname "*.html" -or -iname "*.js" | xargs -0
<snip>

What you want:
find . -type f \( -iname '*.html' -o -iname '*.js' \) -print0

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