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.IX Title "FINDRULE 1p"
.TH FINDRULE 1p "2022-11-19" "perl v5.36.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
findrule \- command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule
.SH "USAGE"
.IX Header "USAGE"
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\&  findrule [path...] [expression]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
\&\f(CW\*(C`findrule\*(C'\fR mostly borrows the interface from \s-1GNU\s0 \fBfind\fR\|(1) to provide a
command-line interface onto the File::Find::Rule heirarchy of modules.
.PP
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.
.PP
Some examples:
.PP
.Vb 1
\& find \-file \-name ( foo bar )
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.PP
files named \f(CW\*(C`foo\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`bar\*(C'\fR, below the current directory.
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\& find \-file \-name foo \-bar
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files named \f(CW\*(C`foo\*(C'\fR, that have pubs (for this is what our ficticious
\&\f(CW\*(C`bar\*(C'\fR clause specifies), below the current directory.
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\& find \-file \-name ( \-bar )
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files named \f(CW\*(C`\-bar\*(C'\fR, 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.
.SS "Supported switches"
.IX Subsection "Supported switches"
I'm very slack.  Please consult the File::Find::Rule manpage for now,
and prepend \- to the commands that you want.
.SS "Extra bonus switches"
.IX Subsection "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.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> from a suggestion by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp.  All Rights Reserved.
.PP
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
File::Find::Rule