[bug #15235] Leading directories are misparsed as expressions

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #15235 (project findutils): Likewise for: $ mkdir , $ touch ,/d Buggy behavior: $ find , find: invalid expression; you have used a binary operator with nothing before it. Expected behavior: $ find , , ,/d ___

[bug #15235] Leading directories are misparsed as expressions

URL: Summary: Leading directories are misparsed as expressions Project: findutils Submitted by: ericb Submitted on: Sat 12/17/05 at 21:59 Category: find

Re: Status of updatedb

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:42:53PM +, James Youngman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:36:52AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > > You can have a look at my own slocate I wrote several years ago > > (based on glibc's fts and GNU locate's frencode) which demonstrates > > this approach: > > ft

Re: Status of updatedb

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:36:52AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > You can have a look at my own slocate I wrote several years ago > (based on glibc's fts and GNU locate's frencode) which demonstrates > this approach: > ftp://ftp.altlinux.org/pub/people/ldv/slocate/slocate-0.2.8.tar.bz2 Interesti

Re: Status of updatedb

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:26:38PM +, James Youngman wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:49:08AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > On 2005-11-30 James Youngman wrote: [...] > > and that in find | sort | datahandling | writeupdatedb only > > writeupdatedb should run as superuser. > > Good point

Re: Status of updatedb

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:49:08AM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2005-11-30 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The updatedb script seems to be pretty complex and messy. In addition > > there are some problems with it. For example, if find returns a > > nonzero result it carries on

Fw: Patch allowing mbchar.c to be compiled on IRIX 5.3

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:38:06PM +0100, Georg Schwarz wrote: > After some poking around with the findutils 4.2.27 code it turned out > that the following patch makes it compile on IRIX 5.3: Great. Does the test suite also pass ("make check") with this patch installed? > --- ./gnulib/lib/mbcha

Re: findutils 4.2.27 on IRIX 5.3

After some poking around with the findutils 4.2.27 code it turned out that the following patch makes it compile on IRIX 5.3: --- ./gnulib/lib/mbchar.c.orig 2005-12-17 20:25:10.0 +0100 +++ ./gnulib/lib/mbchar.c 2005-12-17 20:25:33.0 +0100 @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ #include +#if

Re: Status of updatedb

On 2005-11-30 James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The updatedb script seems to be pretty complex and messy. In addition > there are some problems with it. For example, if find returns a > nonzero result it carries on regardless, I think. That is one thing, as it is diffcult to make fo