On 2009-09-29 Jim Lebeau <j...@ladsnet.com> wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.4.0-2
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/find
> >From the manpage:
> -execdir command ;
> Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the
> subdirectory containing the matched file, which is not
> no
> Debian Example
> p...@lenore:/var$ find -L . -name dreary.html -exec ls {} \;
> ../dreary.example.com/html/dreary.html
> p...@lenore:/var$ find -L . -name dreary.html -execdir ls {} \;
> .././dreary.example.com/html/dreary.html
[...]
> Centos Example
> [r...@lion apache-tomcat]# find -name catalina.out.1 -exec ls {} \;
> ../apache-tomcat-5.5.7/logs/catalina.out.1
> [r...@lion apache-tomcat]# find -name catalina.out.1 -execdir ls {} \;
> ../catalina.out.1
[...]
Hello,
thank you for the report. I have forwarded the issue upstream.
The major difference between the two examples seems to be the presence
of the -L switch and not the underlying OS. ;-)
cu andreas
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