[bug #13098] find complains that 'paths must precede expression' even when they do

2007-01-11 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #13098 (project findutils): Just use Windows and foget that Linux crap ___ Reply to this item at: ___ Message sent via/by Sav

Re: file archive

2007-01-11 Thread Helmut Messerer
thanks, that looks great :-) much appreciated Helmut -- On 1/11/07, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12/5/06, Helmut Messerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would need a file-archive tool, like a modified "locate" version, > which would store for each file an MD5 checksum, which the

Re: file archive

2007-01-11 Thread James Youngman
On 12/5/06, Helmut Messerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would need a file-archive tool, like a modified "locate" version, which would store for each file an MD5 checksum, which then could be searched in the database as well... this would enable us to find identical files easily. is that possibl

Re: Compiling findutils-4.2.29 on solaris10

2007-01-11 Thread James Youngman
On 12/4/06, Frederic Goudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that configure is incorrect for solaris10 : the gnu regex function in gnulib/lib are not compiled. It seems that uncomenting gl_INCLUDED_REGEX([gnulib/lib/regex.c]) (line 169) in configure.in and runing autoconf again solved the

Re: Problems building 4.2.29 on non-Linux

2007-01-11 Thread James Youngman
On 11/27/06, Bert Deknuydt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, 4.2.29 (and 4.2.28, but not 4.2.27) do not build on Tru64, Solaris and HPUX; configure is ok, compile is ok, but final links each time fail with: I believe this problem is fixed in the current CVS code for findutils, but have no ac

Re: Find Command

2007-01-11 Thread James Youngman
On 1/11/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try this instead. find /some/path -depth -type d -empty -print find /some/path -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \; Exactly. You can also use -delete: find /some/path -depth -type d -empty -delete -o -printf "Failed to delete %p\n" T

Re: Find Command

2007-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:05:17 +0900 aforce ma wrote: > When I try to use the command belows to delete empty > directories,there always comes error messages,however the empty > directory has been deleted already,Is this a Bug? or how can I do to > make the error do not come? > > find -type d -empty

Find Command

2007-01-11 Thread aforce ma
Hi, When I try to use the command belows to delete empty directories,there always comes error messages,however the empty directory has been deleted already,Is this a Bug? or how can I do to make the error do not come? find -type d -empty -exec rm -rf {} \; B.R Ma Bing __

file archive

2007-01-11 Thread Helmut Messerer
I would need a file-archive tool, like a modified "locate" version, which would store for each file an MD5 checksum, which then could be searched in the database as well... this would enable us to find identical files easily. is that possible with findutils? are there other tools which could do t

Compiling findutils-4.2.29 on solaris10

2007-01-11 Thread Frederic Goudal
Hello, It seems that configure is incorrect for solaris10 : the gnu regex function in gnulib/lib are not compiled. It seems that uncomenting gl_INCLUDED_REGEX([gnulib/lib/regex.c]) (line 169) in configure.in and runing autoconf again solved the problem. f.g. ___

Problems building 4.2.29 on non-Linux

2007-01-11 Thread Bert Deknuydt
Hello, 4.2.29 (and 4.2.28, but not 4.2.27) do not build on Tru64, Solaris and HPUX; configure is ok, compile is ok, but final links each time fail with: gcc -g -O2 -o find find.o fstype.o parser.o pred.o tree.o util.o version.o ../lib/libfind.a ../gnulib/lib/libgnulib.a /freeware/gnu-tools