Follow-up Comment #4, bug #60383 (project findutils): Ok now that discussion is off-topic, actually, but regarding this:
[comment #3 comment #3:] > We cannot use //x as a way to escape x, because in POSIX path names matching //[^/] are `special` and have an implementation-defined significance, which `find` cannot know (find is intended to run also on non-GNU systems). Interesting. I didn't know about that. But still, no show stopper in my estimation. Another alternative would be prefixing it with a currenlty unused option/switch, e.g. "-e" like grep does for regular expressions starting with a dash, or bash's "echo" builtin command has with it's "-E" flag. $ find -e -evil -e -pathnames -e -dont -e -scare -e -me -ls and ... $ find -e -e -ls _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60383> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/