[bug #51506] Better support for data processing with basenames

[Markus Elfring]

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                 Summary: Better support for data processing with basenames
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: elfring
            Submitted on: Wed 19 Jul 2017 03:06:47 PM CEST
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

I imagine that there is a class of programs which prefer to start their data
processing with basenames. They will operate on file names without referencing
directories from their input data at the beginning. So I am looking for ways
that the copy of a found directory could be occasionally omitted from a search
result.

0 The parameter “-printf %f\\n” is already supported. Its data processing
needs also an amount of computation resources. How do you think about to let
an other program version work without it because of a system configuration
where the applied output function can be a built-in setting?
0 The parameters “-exec” and “-execdir” are also supported. Can an
other argument (or another built-in setting) trigger the omission of a
directory name from the passed command line parameters?




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