What Is the “-O” Argument in Find Command?
I Am Currently Running This Command: Find. \( -Type D -Name. Git -Prune \) -O -Type F -Name "*"` on My Macos Shell. I Found the Command in a Stack Overflow...
I am currently running this command:
find . \( -type d -name .git -prune \) -o -type f -name "*"` on my macos shell.
I found the command in a Stack Overflow thread for another problem. I do not understand what -o argument is for.
I have looked into find’s man page and searched the web but could not find what is the argument for.
1 Answer
That -o means “or”.
As explained in the find man page:
The POSIX standard specifies parentheses '(', ')', negation '!' and the 'and' and 'or' operators ( -a, -o).
So -o is “or” and -a is and. Simple as that!
And FWIW, this ExplainShell page breaks down the whole command (somewhat) clearly.
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