URL:
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Summary: find -printf %h gives an empty string for the root
directory '/'
Project: findutils
Submitted by: tavianator
Submitted on: Tue 03 Sep 2019 03:56:18 PM UTC
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.7.0
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
This is just https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50259#comment13, but I thought it
deserved its own report.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=855dbdadbf75ca1f08f3e1c7c6811670e952d906
even documents that %h should give the dirname of the path, but:
$ find / /tmp -maxdepth 0 -printf '[%h]\n'
[]
[]
$ dirname /
/
$ dirname /tmp
/
%h giving the empty string can be a problem if you are using -printf to output
paths for processing by some other command, for example.
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