In article <yov5d7as1u2f.fsf@highland.sibyte.com> you write:
>jhawk@mit.edu (John Hawkinson) writes:
>> 	When the find command has two operands of an -or operator,
>> if no -print is specified, it defaults to applying -print to both operands,
>> not merely to the second operand.
>
>Yes.  I believe that that's because the POSIX.2 standard said that
>without an operator that caused 'output' (however they put that, iirc
>the standard ones being being: -print, -ls, -exec), the behaviour

-exec, -ok and -print, actually.  -ls isn't in POSIX.

>My recollection is that our '-print' behaviour is correct, but that's
>fuzzy since it dates back to '93 or '94,

Checked with my pet copy of POSIX.2.  Your recollection is correct.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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