[BusyBox] find errors?

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Mon Feb 5 20:52:48 UTC 2001


On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:51:31PM -0600, ssrat at mailbag.com wrote:
> A bug in find...
> 
> # find /home /root
> 
> ...finds all files in /home;
> 
> # find /root /home
> 
> ...finds all files in /root..
> 
> It turns out that:
> 
> # find /root /home <any-or-no-predicates...>
> 
> ...will consistently find all files, but only in /root.
> 
> I've discovered that this is present in 0.48pre and also in 0.49 ...

BusyBox find can't handle multiple directories.  I'm rewriting it
and I'll post a patch when finished (including -type support).

Matt





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