[PATCH] find ! ... (operator -not)

[Natanael Copa]

vda,

Sorry for the delayed reply. I was sick since friday.

Thank for you comments. They were appreciated.

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 18:10 +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2007 22:43, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Friday 02 February 2007 16:01, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Attatched is a patch for support of the '!' operator for find.
> > > 
> > > I created another macro ALLOC_TEST for actions that can be inverted with
> > > '!'. They are not really actions (like -print) but tests (like -name).
> > > 
> > > It should not touch anything unless you have enabled the
> > > FEATURE_FIND_NOT config option.
> > 
> > parse_params():
> > invert_flag is never reset to 0. This must be a bug -
> > "not" shouldn't be applied to the second -name here, I think
> > (did not check it versus GNU find, tho...):
> > find ! -name '*.a' -o -name '*.b'

Correct. It was a bug.

> I did it myself. find ! support is in svn. Please test.

The bug is still there.

./busybox find ! -name '*.c' -name 'f*'

Should give you a lists of files starting with 'f' and with all .c files
excluded.

The attatched patch should fix it.

Thanks!
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