I fear this is no bug but intended behavior. ;-)
Take a look at the manual page, especially precedence of operators.
'expr1 expr2' has a higher precedence then 'expr -or expr2'.
Thus your command is like
find . ( -name a ) -or ( -name b -exec echo {} \; )
i.e. the exec only applies for the last operand. To do what you indent,
you have to force presedence like
$ find . \( -name b -or -name a \) -exec echo {} \;
./b
./a
Thus I'll close the bug as 'rejected'. If you still feel this is a bug
feel free to reopen it. Thank you.
** Changed in: findutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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find with -or and -exec doesn't report all matches
https://launchpad.net/bugs/55764
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