On Thursday 01 November 2007, Steve Long wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > On 10:36 Tue 30 Oct     , Roy Marples (uberlord) wrote:
> >> (find . -name '*.cgi' ; find . -name '*.pl') | perl perlpath.pl
> >> /usr/bin/perl -
> >
> > Please don't tell me the -or find flag isn't POSIX so we can't use it...
>
> It's GNU, but why on Earth they saw fit to break script compatibility when
> POSIX specified -o already is another topic.. ;-)

most likely historical.  GNU find supports the -o operator just fine.
-mike