Follow-up Comment #16, bug #60383 (project findutils): Looking at BSD's -f documentation - a one-liner - and implementation [1], it seems just to ensure that the next argv[i] is treated as a starting point (regardless whether it looks like an option or not). Furthermore, -f seems to change the handling of the '--' argument.
This seems to be a solution for the 80% case, but if one has file names like '--', then ... And this is limited by the maximum command line length while -files0-from allows an arbitrary number of starting points. [1] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/usr.bin/find/ Compared to GNU find's -files0-from option, the usefulness of -f seems to be a bit limited, and the former is the more generic and superior choice. Therefore, I'd rather would like to see that POSIX would standardize the -files0-from option (or a -0 shortcut for it). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60383> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
