Hush script to recurse through file system?

James Youngman jay at gnu.org
Mon Jun 27 22:33:42 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Bernhard Reutner-Fischer
<rep.dot.nop at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:40:00PM +0200, Harald Becker wrote:
>> Hallo Bernhard!
>>
>>> Someone should fix our finds exec to handle {}+ .
>>>
>>That would be a great idea ... may be it can be done by implicitly doing
>>the "-print0 | xargs -0 ..." stuff. That way it shall not wast much of
>>extra code space? ... just as an idea.
>
> as said in
> http://git.uclibc.org/busybox/commit/findutils/find.c?id=2e73d84c02c6dd4945838665ce0167bddbb7f1c8 .

The final example in that patch is incorrect.    IIRc, + should only
be special if immediately following a {}.    ">"{}"<" is not the same.

James.


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