[bug #23964] Conflicting assumptions about slashes and -name

[James Youngman]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23964>

                 Summary: Conflicting assumptions about slashes and -name
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: jay
            Submitted on: Wednesday 07/30/2008 at 11:02
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

This matches no files:

find ./core* -maxdepth 0   -name 'core.\*' -print

But this generates a warning message:

find ./core* -maxdepth 0  -name './core.\*' -print

If it's the only possible way to do something, it probably shouldn't generate
a warning message.




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