Re: A new utility: trv

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:55:15PM +0000, James Youngman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 09:17:40PM +0100, Giuliano Colla wrote:
[...]
> The -execdir action was introduced by *BSD as a secure alternative to
> the insecure-by-design -exec action that Unixes have had for years
> (and which POSIX standardises).  GNU findutils does not yet support
> -execdir, though support is planned soon.  There is a patch on
> http://savannah.gnu.org/ which implements -execdir, but it's slightly
> out-of-date and probably won't apply cleanly.  The logical way to
> implement it is just after implementing support for the '+' terminator
> for -exec (which, again, is mandated by POSIX).

The patch is https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3504
I post updated revisions from time to time, since I maintain findutils
development releases for ALT Linux Sisyphus.

GNU findutils already supports -delete action (since 4.2.3 release) which
is most important case of -execdir.

> That means my current plan is :
> 
> 1. Improve the test suite, paying particular attention to xargs 
>    so that I will know if I break it later
> 2. Refactor the find code so that it makes use of the xargs functionality 
>    for building command lines 
> 3. Use this to support '-exec {} +'.
> 4. Implement '-execdir {} ;'
> 5. Implement '-execdir {} +'

I think that you can add '-execdir {} ;' support right now for zero cost.
However, '-execdir {} +' is much more useful option.


-- 
ldv

pgpUAUBgtWerp.pgp
Description: PGP signature