Re: make {} always work even outside -exec

2006-10-11 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> One has to do >> $ find -type f -exec find {} ! -anewer {} \; J> Unless I am mistaken, "find foo ! -anewer foo" always succeeds unless J> foo is touched during the execution of find. -anewer file File was last accessed more recently than file was modified. Does find chang

fts vs. simulated-inode file systems: FUSE-based, FAT, smbfs, cifs, ...

2006-10-11 Thread Jim Meyering
This started with the bug report: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17877 Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers To summarize the problem, ... for each directory that fts processes, it opens it, reads all entries, and stats each entry, storing the re

Re: Bug in the updatedb script

2006-10-11 Thread James Youngman
Using GNU sort allows the use of the -z flag, which will ensure that locate can correctly process path names containing a newline. Hence there is an advantage to using GNU sort with GNU findutils. However, it is not essential, if you don't want to process filenames containing newlines. The loca

Bug in the updatedb script

2006-10-11 Thread Ulli.Linzen
Dear Developers, dear Package-Maintainer, after upgrading the findutils package for Solaris from 4.1.20 to Version 4.2.27, the updatedb script does not work anymore. In the script, there is a hardcoded invocation of /usr/local/bin/sort. Well, this location for sort might be true for your Systems,