Re: find . -wholename ’./src/emacs’ -prune -o -print

[Reza Roboubi]

Reza Roboubi wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
> > According to Reza Roboubi on 2/24/2010 9:47 PM:
> > > The man page seems buggy:
> > > find . -wholename ’./src/emacs’ -prune -o -print
> > > It works _without_ the ticks(quotes) contrary to what the man page says.
> >
> > There's a difference between "’" which you copied from the man page (a
> > nice Unicode stylized right single quote) and "'" which is what you get
> > when you type an apostrophe on your keyboard.  Most likely, the problems
> > you are seeing are due to pasting the wrong character.
>
> Sorry about the Cut & Paste confusion.  Of course I tried it with proper 
> single quotes as well.  My real problem was I did this:
>
> find . -wholename './src/emacs/' -prune -o -print   (extra slash)
>
> and that wasn't working.  Why is that?
>
>  > find . -wholename ./src/emacs -prune -o -print
>  > find . -wholename './src/emacs' -prune -o -print
>  > find . -wholename "./src/emacs" -prune -o -print
>  > find . -wholename \./src/emacs -prune -o -print
>
> Thanks for thoroughly explaining the bash syntax with examples.
>
> Reza.

Nevermind!  I get it now!

-prune must get an exact directory name match and then it prunes it's 
children.

Duh!!  Sorry.

Reza.