I wrote a post about how to understand find syntax: find and test: How To Read And Write Them https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/find-test.html https://www

I wrote a post about how to understand find syntax: find and test: How To Read And Write Them https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/find-test.html https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/04/find-test.html tl;dr The args AFTER the root dir args form a boolean expression language -- I call it the "I'm too lazy to write a lexer" pattern find /tmp -type -f -a -name 'foo*' test is the same way, e.g. test -f /tmp -a -f /bin