Possible bug in updatedb in findutils 4.1

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello:

To get the update db to run properly on an NFS mounted filesystem,
(Don't ask me why I would WANT to do a find down an NFS mounted
volume) I had to change the lines:

if test -n "$NETPATHS"; then
  su $NETUSER -c 
  "$find $NETPATHS \\( -type d -regex \"$PRUNEREGEX\" -prune \\) -o -print"
fi

to

if test -n "$NETPATHS"; then
  su $NETUSER -c 
  "$find $NETPATHS \\( -type d -regex '$PRUNEREGEX' -prune \\) -o -print"
fi

Otherwise I got a:

   Illegal variable name.

error from the script. I think its coming from the su since the line
expands to:

su rouilj -c find /net/machine/oracle/test \( -type d -regex 
"\(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/afs$\)" -prune \) -o -print

and I think the $\) is being interprested as a variable reference.

This is on solaris 2.8 with /bin/sh. YMMV.

                                -- rouilj
John Rouillard
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