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Summary: misleading error message
Project: findutils
Submitted by: ericb
Submitted on: Mon 12/12/05 at 07:01
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Eric Blake
Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 4.2.27
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
Quality of implementation bug:
$ find \( \)
find: invalid expression; you have too many ')'
Actually, I have a balanced set of \( \), the error message in this case
would better be worded as something like:
find: invalid expression; expecting an expression between '(' and ')'
Or you could change the behavior as an extension to POSIX, and treat \( \)
the same as \( -true \), although I wouldn't recommend that.
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