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  findrule [path...] [expression]

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.

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

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.

File::Find::Rule