Re: findutils 4.1.7

[khamis Siksek]

Hello all,

Sorry for replying to bob only, i pressed the reply button and it seems
that my client lacks list follow up functionality ...

Regarding the "Search and Destroy" thing :-), the -depth solved the
problem while i thought that -depth is a default option, since it is
more convenient to do processing on the child before doing it on the
parent, anyways thanks for clarifying things for me.

I will be waiting for your next stable release, and i will be glad to
help in anyways, either by testing, or writing code, i have a good
experience in GNU C programming (over 3 years) and if you think that i
will be of any help please tell me how to join the crew ...

Thanks and best regards,

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 10:34, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Hello Khamis
> 
> Please keep the discussion on the mailling list by doing a list
> reply instead of an individual reply.  If your mailer lacks the
> list followup functionality then please at the least use the group
> followup action instead of doing an individual reply.  (When doing a
> group followup there is no need to CC me since I read the lists.  But
> I won't usually say anything about that.)
> 
> khamis Siksek wrote:
> > Will i totally understand what you are talking about, but, to give you a
> > clearer example on why i did use find and rm -rf, assume you want to
> > search in the cvs repository for the directory CVS (the administrative
> > directory) and you want to delete all the instances of the directory
> > then you will need to do find with rm -rf
> > example
> > 
> > find ./cvs -name CVS -exec rm -rf {} \;
> > 
> > In such case you need rm -rf, or xargs
> > 
> > find ./cvs -name CVS | xargs rm -rf
> > 
> > or another way
> > 
> > rm -rf `find ./cvs -name CVS`
> > 
> > Well i use the first one usually, but the behavior is not expected, find
> > should find the SOMETHING directory then apply the -exec command, what i
> > see happens is find finds the SOMETHING directory, applies the -exec
> > command, and then tries to find it again or something like that which
> > shouldn't be the case. As i remember, on Solaris the Sun implementation
> > for find doesn't have this problem, unfortenutely i don't have Sun
> > machines to verify what i am talking about, but it confuses the user
> > when you ask it to "Search and Destroy" something and it returns that it
> > didn't find while it found it and destroyed it.
> 
> It seems to me without checking that adding '-depth' to the find
> options would eliminate your issue because it would force find to do
> the traversal first.  Does that solve your issue?
> 
> > Hope that a clarified the issue, i tried to see the problem myself in
> > the findutils source code, but unfortunetely also the findutils i
> > downloaded is not compilable on RedHat 9.0
> > 
> > BTW: I would to notify you that it is confusing that the latest stable
> > version is back to 1995 or something, is it really the latest stable
> > version? since i looked in the unstable versions and i found that you
> > things you are working on in year 2003
> > 
> > Best regards and sorry if i disturbed you,
> 
> The find command's previous maintainer has become inactive.  So yes,
> the latest stable version of find is very old.  Since then it has been
> picked up by another developer and there recently has been much
> activity.  Expect another stable release with updates and bug fixes
> sometime in the near future as find is being worked on and maintained
> once again.
> 
> Bob