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find 4.2.20 "-name" option
From: |
Darrell Tangman |
Subject: |
find 4.2.20 "-name" option |
Date: |
Mon, 2 May 2005 07:55:50 -0400 (EDT) |
I just installed findutils 4.2.20 and am finding that existing scripts
need tweaking. The latest problem (and the only thing that appears to be
an actual bug, and not just an incompatibility) is that the command
find . -name '*' -print
begins its output with ".", followed by "./somename", where "somename" is
the first name found in the current directory. According to the
documentation, "*" does not match "." at the beginning of the basename; it
appears that find is now treating the basename of "." as an empty string,
which is a very curious behavior. The expected behavior can be achieved
with
find . -name '*' -not -name . -print
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