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To: "Robert A. Bruce" <rab@cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: bug in "find"
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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 22 Sep 1997 13:55:11 +0200
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"Robert A. Bruce" <rab@cdrom.com> writes:
> "find" does not properly handle directory names ending in /.

This is a problem of the fts(3) library. All programs which
use fts functions (du, ls, find, chmod, rm, cp) are affected.

Wolfram

> If I type
> 
>    find /tmp/ -print
> 
> I get
> 
>    /tmp//foo
>    /tmp//bar
>    /tmp//baz
> 
> instead of
> 
>    /tmp/foo
>    /tmp/bar
>    /tmp/baz
> 
> The find command is not properly handling the trailing slash.
> It should strip it off or ignore it, but it does not.
> 
> Linux, SunOS and Solaris all do it right.  FreeBSD does it wrong.
> 
> 	-bob
> 
> 

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Wolfram Schneider   <wosch@apfel.de>   http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/