emb978@leah.Albany.Edu (Eric M. Boehm) (01/20/89)
Why is it that you can use a construction like stuff / ! -name *.obj ! -name *.exe ! -name *.bak (this is from stuff.doc) to grab all files not matching *.obj, *.exe and *.bak but you cannot use stuff / -name *.obj -name *.exe -name *.bak to grab all files matching *.obj, *.exe and *.bak? If I try this, I get nothing back. I have not looked at the source but it appears that stuff finds all the *.obj and then tries to find *.exe in the *.obj, etc. The only way I found around this is: stuff / -name *.obj > list stuff / -name *.exe >> list stuff / -name *.bak >> list This takes a long time since I have a 300MB disk and the disk is scanned three times. I have read stuff.doc but I am unable to find any other solutions. Does any have any ideas? Please respond via E-MAIL. Eric M. Boehm EMB978@LEAH.ALBANY.EDU EMB978@ALBNY1VX.BITNET