[bug #50058] [wishlist] -prune a subdir(tree) when a file therein matches criteria

[Dale Worley]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #50058 (project findutils):

True, -depth causes the elements of a directory to be processed before the
directory itself.  But there's no specified way to affect the order in which
the items in a directory are processed.  I suspect this comes from the
semantics of opendir/readdir/closedir in the earliest versions of Unix.  The
only way find could get around this is to read directories completely when it
first enters them and sort the entries itself.  Unfortunately, this would make
find vulnerable to bad behavior on very large directories.

OTOH, one could use *nested* invocations of find, as in this gruesome command
line:

find /dir -type d -exec find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -newer XXX \; -prune -print
-false


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