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Re: find: invalid expression


From: James Youngman
Subject: Re: find: invalid expression
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:29:09 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.28i

On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 03:20:24AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> find: invalid expression
> That's the most we are going to get out of find.
> It's like a proprietary black box, and there's no --debug option.
> Deep down it knows we are missing a parentheses or -o, but no,
> "that's for me to know and you to find out".

This is a surprisingly hostile [1] and terse bug report.  I was not
pleased to receive it.  Normally I am happy to receive bug reports,
since they represent an opportunity to improve the code.  However,
this one was an exception.

If you would care to submit a useful bug report (see
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for example) I
will do my best to fix it.

Regards,
James.

[1] I should say, of course, _apparently_ hostile.  I have no idea how
exactly Mr. Jacobson actually feels.





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