>>>>> "Nirmal" == Nirmal Govind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hello lyx-devel, I continue this private discussion with Nirmal and Bennett here, since I am sure somebody will come up with the one true find syntax we need. The problem is that compilation hangs in po, and the reason is the following find invokation in po/Makefile.in.in: find src -regex ".*\\.\\(C\\|c\\|h\\|C\\.in\\)" -print Nirmal> My bad.. the correct syntax should be: Nirmal> find src \( -regex ".*\\.\\C" -or -regex ".*\\.\\c" -or -regex Nirmal> ".*\\.\\h" -or -regex ".*\\C\\.in" \) -print Nirmal> This works well and from man find on OS X, there does not seem Nirmal> to be support for the | syntax for the logical OR (I'm pasting Nirmal> some of the relevant parts of man find below).. I took a look at the find man page which reads: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/find.1.html] -regex pattern True if the whole path of the file matches pattern using regular expression. To match a file named ``./foo/xyzzy'', you can use the regular expression ``.*/[xyz]*'' or ``.*/foo/.*'', but not ``xyzzy'' or ``/foo/''. This is OK. However, there is also this option about the type of regular expressions: -E Interpret regular expressions followed by -regex and -iregex options as extended (modern) regular expressions rather than basic regular expressions (BRE's). The re_format(7) manual page fully describes both formats. So, what is a basic RE according to apple? The man page re_format says: [http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/html/re_format.7.html] Obsolete (``basic'') regular expressions differ in several respects. `|' is an ordinary character and there is no equivalent for its functionality. [...] So it seems that Darwin's find cannot handle our find regular expression, because BRE cannot do `or'. OTOH, it seems that we cannot use EREs with GNU find. Except for the .C.in case, it seems that we could use find src -name '*.[Cch]' -print (this is basically what we did in 1.3.x) So what is the truly portable way to do a ``or'' in find-world? Shall we use "\( foo -or bar \)"? JMarc
