On 8/6/22 09:20, Fourhundred Thecat wrote:> how difficult would it be to patch find, to print trailing slash for > directories? > > This seems like a very useful feature, without interfering with > compatibility or specifications. > [...] > I am wondering if some simple patch would be possible to do this by > default in find?
Besides Andreas' excellent solution to achieve this with existing functionality, I'd like to emphasize that we can't simply change the default behavior: a) find(1) is a tool with looong history and many scripts rely on its behavior, b) compatibility with other implementations, and c) the POSIX specification [1] has a quite clear and strict definition about how the output shall look like. [1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/find.html Have a nice day, Berny
