[bug #31943] Optional path component violates POSIX

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                 Summary: Optional path component violates POSIX
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue Dec 21 16:18:36 2010
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Chris Rees
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Most operating systems (FreeBSD [1], Solaris [2]) implement the correct
behaviour when not give a path to search.

Example:

$ find -type d

should fail.

Find should _require_ the first non-option to be a path, whereas this variant
assumes '.' if not provided.

This means that people writing scripts often don't make them portable; for
example the busybox project had some in their Makefiles until recently [3]

Perhaps now the damage is done, a warning could be given if this incorrect
behaviour is relied upon?

I'll write a patch shortly if that sounds agreeable.

[1] http://nixdoc.net/man-pages/FreeBSD/find.1.html

[2] http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-0210/6m6nb7m9j?l=en&a=view

[3]
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=12caabfa2da59ef877ad7ccbe949164dcc6d69e4




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