Linux command find -print. When to I need this option?

What is the difference between:
find . -name "*.txt" and find . -name "*.txt" -print ?

I mean what is the use of print in find. I see that it prints the results anyway so why is this option available?

1 Answer

In very old versions of find, -print wasn't implicit so was required.

Nowadays, it is the default action but is still useful when combined with -prune to avoid the default action to encompass the pruning. eg:

This won't print files named foo under /tmp:

find /tmp -name foo -prune -o -type f -print

This will:

find /tmp -name foo -prune -o -type f