Darrell Tangman wrote:
> I just installed findutils 4.2.20 and am finding that existing scripts
> need tweaking. The latest problem (and the only thing that appears to be
> an actual bug, and not just an incompatibility) is that the command
>
> find . -name '*' -print
>
> begins its output with ".", followed by "./somename", where "somename" is
> the first name found in the current directory.
This is exactly what the native HP-UX find command does too. So there
is probably some legacy compatibility there. I checked HP-UX 10.20
through 11.23. All print the . in the above example.
> According to the documentation, "*" does not match "." at the
> beginning of the basename; it appears that find is now treating the
> basename of "." as an empty string, which is a very curious
> behavior.
I look at the POSIX docs which say:
The leading period shall not be matched by:
* The asterisk or question-mark special characters
So that does seem to support your statement.
Bob
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