GNU find (and others?) has a -true
test along with the normal -name
, -mode
, -user
and so on. From the man page:
-true Always true.
Every time I see the man page I notice this and wonder when it'd be useful. So, give me some examples of when it's useful :~)
-
When you want to list all files in
find
format to pipe into another program ?I guess it must be more efficient than using
-name "*"
or something similar.Dennis Williamson : `find` with no arguments at all does that.Julien Tartarin : Sure, but it's more explicit and has the same syntax with `-true`Dennis Williamson : How so?From Julien Tartarin -
Might useful for debuging when you are ANDing or ORing statements. So if you have a long command with a complex chain of arguments with lots of AND / OR between the statements, and something that isn't working like you expect, you could replace parts of it with -true to check your logic.
However, I am not sure if this is why it is there, but seems like a legitimate use.
From Kyle Brandt -
Consider
find -delete -o -true -print
. It's not too useful, but it's a pointer that you can think of-true
or-false
as means to override an in-expression result of some command with side effects.From diunko
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