Re: find bug, plus and PATCH for wwwdocs/bin/preprocess

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 11:05:34AM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> The following invocations are equivalent under
>    GNU find 4.1 (Red Hat 6.2 as on gcc.gnu.org)
>    FreeBSD find (FreeBSD 4.3)
>    Solaris find (Solaris 2.8)
> but no under
>    GNU find 4.1.6 (SuSE 7.2)
> 
> 1. find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o -type f
> 2. find . \( -name CVS -prune \) -o -type f -print
> 
> I thus changed the former to the latter for increased portability,
> though I'm tempted to think this is a bug (or at least a misfeature)
> in GNU find 4.1.6.

Yes, findutils NEWS is clear:
* Major changes in release 4.1.7:
fix problem so that default "-print" is added when "-prune" is used.

        Jakub