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# NAME

find2perl - translate find command lines to Perl code

# SYNOPSIS

    	find2perl [paths] [predicates] | perl

# DESCRIPTION

find2perl is a little translator to convert find command lines to equivalent Perl code. The resulting code is typically faster than running find itself.

"paths" are a set of paths where find2perl will start its searches and "predicates" are taken from the following list.

- `! PREDICATE`

  Negate the sense of the following predicate. The `!` must be passed as a distinct argument, so it may need to be surrounded by whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash (just as with using `find(1)` ).

- `( PREDICATES )`

  Group the given PREDICATES. The parentheses must be passed as distinct arguments, so they may need to be surrounded by whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash (just as with using `find(1)` ).

- `PREDICATE1 PREDICATE2`

  True if _both_ PREDICATE1 and PREDICATE2 are true; PREDICATE2 is not evaluated if PREDICATE1 is false.

- `PREDICATE1 -o PREDICATE2`

  True if either one of PREDICATE1 or PREDICATE2 is true; PREDICATE2 is not evaluated if PREDICATE1 is true.

- `-follow`

  Follow (dereference) symlinks. The checking of file attributes depends on the position of the `-follow` option. If it precedes the file check option, an `stat` is done which means the file check applies to the file the symbolic link is pointing to. If `-follow` option follows the file check option, this now applies to the symbolic link itself, i.e. an `lstat` is done.

- `-depth`

  Change directory traversal algorithm from breadth-first to depth-first.

- `-prune`

  Do not descend into the directory currently matched.

- `-xdev`

  Do not traverse mount points (prunes search at mount-point directories).

- `-name GLOB`

  File name matches specified GLOB wildcard pattern. GLOB may need to be quoted to avoid interpretation by the shell (just as with using `find(1)` ).

- `-iname GLOB`

  Like `-name` , but the match is case insensitive.

- `-path GLOB`

  Path name matches specified GLOB wildcard pattern.

- `-ipath GLOB`

  Like `-path` , but the match is case insensitive.

- `-perm PERM`

  Low-order 9 bits of permission match octal value PERM.

- `-perm -PERM`

  The bits specified in PERM are all set in file's permissions.

- `-type X`

  The file's type matches perl's `-X` operator.

- `-fstype TYPE`

  Filesystem of current path is of type TYPE (only NFS/non-NFS distinction is implemented).

- `-user USER`

  True if USER is owner of file.

- `-group GROUP`

  True if file's group is GROUP.

- `-nouser`

  True if file's owner is not in password database.

- `-nogroup`

  True if file's group is not in group database.

- `-inum INUM`

  True file's inode number is INUM.

- `-links N`

  True if (hard) link count of file matches N (see below).

- `-size N`

  True if file's size matches N (see below) N is normally counted in 512-byte blocks, but a suffix of "c" specifies that size should be counted in characters (bytes) and a suffix of "k" specifies that size should be counted in 1024-byte blocks.

- `-atime N`

  True if last-access time of file matches N (measured in days) (see below).

- `-ctime N`

  True if last-changed time of file's inode matches N (measured in days, see below).

- `-mtime N`

  True if last-modified time of file matches N (measured in days, see below).

- `-newer FILE`

  True if last-modified time of file matches N.

- `-print`

  Print out path of file (always true). If none of `-exec` , `-ls` , `-print0` , or `-ok` is specified, then `-print` will be added implicitly.

- `-print0`

  Like -print, but terminates with \0 instead of \n.

- `-exec OPTIONS ;`

  exec() the arguments in OPTIONS in a subprocess; any occurrence of {} in OPTIONS will first be substituted with the path of the current file. Note that the command "rm" has been special-cased to use perl's unlink() function instead (as an optimization). The `;` must be passed as a distinct argument, so it may need to be surrounded by whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash (just as with using `find(1)` ).

- `-ok OPTIONS ;`

  Like -exec, but first prompts user; if user's response does not begin with a y, skip the exec. The `;` must be passed as a distinct argument, so it may need to be surrounded by whitespace and/or quoted from interpretation by the shell using a backslash (just as with using `find(1)` ).

- `-eval EXPR`

  Has the perl script eval() the EXPR.

- `-ls`

  Simulates `-exec ls -dils {} ;`

- `-tar FILE`

  Adds current output to tar-format FILE.

- `-cpio FILE`

  Adds current output to old-style cpio-format FILE.

- `-ncpio FILE`

  Adds current output to "new"-style cpio-format FILE.

Predicates which take a numeric argument N can come in three forms:

       * N is prefixed with a +: match values greater than N   * N is prefixed with a -: match values less than N   * N is not prefixed with either + or -: match only values equal to N

# SEE ALSO

find, File::Find.

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