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[bug #23920] find.1: please add short note about no trailing slashes for
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
[bug #23920] find.1: please add short note about no trailing slashes for directories |
Date: |
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:17:10 +0000 |
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Follow-up Comment #5, bug #23920 (project findutils):
Oops. I was thinking that -path added an implicit leading and trailing *,
but that is not the case. Just like -name, the pattern does not match an
internal substring unless explicit globs are provided. So, revisiting the
examples:
$ find 2008/ 2001/ -path 2008/ -o -path 2001
2008/
$ find 2008/ 2001/ -path 2008/ -o -path '2001*'
2001/
2008/
$ find 2008 2001 -path 2008/ -o -path 2001
2001
$ find ./src/emacs/ -path ./src/emacs/
./src/emacs/
$ find . -path ./src/emacs/
$ find . -path './src/emacs/*'
./src/emacs/foo.c
So, indeed, a trailing slash to path will never match anything except command
line arguments, making it almost worthless for -prune.
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