Manual: findrule

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NAME
       findrule - command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule

USAGE
	 findrule [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION
       "findrule" mostly borrows the interface from GNU find(1) to provide a command-line interface onto the
       File::Find::Rule heirarchy of modules.

       The syntax for expressions is the rule name, preceded by a dash, followed by an optional argument.  If the argument
       is an opening parenthesis it is taken as a list of arguments, terminated by a closing parenthesis.

       Some examples:

	find -file -name ( foo bar )

       files named "foo" or "bar", below the current directory.

	find -file -name foo -bar

       files named "foo", that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious "bar" clause specifies), below the current
       directory.

	find -file -name ( -bar )

       files named "-bar", below the current directory.	 In this case if we'd have omitted the parenthesis it would have
       parsed as a call to name with no arguments, followed by a call to -bar.

   Supported switches
       I'm very slack.	Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now, and prepend - to the commands that you want.

   Extra bonus switches
       findrule automatically loads all of your installed File::Find::Rule::* extension modules, so check the documentation
       to see what those would be.

AUTHOR
       Richard Clamp  from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO
       File::Find::Rule

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