findorule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Object::Rule

- NAME
- USAGE
- DESCRIPTION

- Supported switches
- Extra bonus switches

- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO

# NAME

findorule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Object::Rule

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# USAGE

      findorule [path...] [expression]

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# 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 -bar

files 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.

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# AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

Adapted to the File::Find::Object::Rule manpage by Shlomi Fish (all copyrights disclaimed).

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# 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.

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# SEE ALSO

the File::Find::Object::Rule manpage

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findorule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Object::Rule