The gnufind man page states that expressions are composed of options,
tests, and actions, all separated by operators, and that "-and is
assumed where the operator is omitted." Therefore I don't understand
why:
find . -operator -print
works, but
find . -operator -and -print
doesn't work for many operators (resulting in error message "invalid
expression"). According to my reading of the man page they should be
identical. To be more specific, the following do not work:
find . -mindepth 1 -and -print
find . -maxdepth 1 -and -print
find . -mount -and -print
find . -noleaf -and -print
find . -xdepth -and -print
however the following do work:
find . -help -and -print
find . -version -and -print
presumably because -help and -version short-circuit the parsing logic.
Have I run into a bug or am I misunderstanding the gnufind expression
syntax?
Tim
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