[bug #52409] `find -print0 -name ...` ignores `-name ...`

[Dale Worley]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #52409 (project findutils):

Actually, this is a usage error:  -print is an action as well as a predicate. 
In particular, it takes effect when it is executed *in order* among the
predicates.  So if you execute

find . -name '*.c' -print

find will, for each file name, first test to see if it passes the -name test,
and then if it does, test to see if it passes the -print test.  -print always
succeeds, but as a side-effect, it prints the name.  And consecutive
predicates are implicitly connected by "and", or rather, the short-circuiting
"&&" operator of C.

If you execute

find . -name '*.c' -print -print

it will print every *.c name *twice*, as there are two -print predicates to
execute.

If you execute

find . -name '*.c'

it will print every *.c name once, because find appends -print to command
lines that have no side-effect-causing predicates.

If you execute

find . -print -name '*.c"

find will, for each name, first print it and then test if it matches *.c.


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