[bug #50259] -printf %h behaves weirdly with trailing slashes

[Tavian Barnes]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50259>

                 Summary: -printf %h behaves weirdly with trailing slashes
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: tavianator
            Submitted on: Thu 09 Feb 2017 01:12:01 AM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Tavian Barnes
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

If the root path has a trailing slash, %h doesn't replace it with '.',
resulting in this strange behaviour:

$ mkdir -p foo/bar
$ find foo -printf '%h/%f\n'
./foo
foo/bar
$ find foo/ -printf '%h/%f\n'
foo/foo/
foo/bar





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