[bug #44078] Find fails if executed from a directory on which the user has no list permissions and exec is an option used

2015-02-12 Thread anonymous
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44078 (project findutils): My version is from last January: 4.4.2-7 in Ubuntu 14.04 which is still the latest for the distro. I've had this issue for over a year, but now cannot replicate it either. I didn't update findutils, but something had to have changed. I checked

[bug #44221] Spurious warning about non-option arguments is spurious

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew McGill
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #44221 (project findutils): Considering... find -type f -ls -a -mindepth 4 -delete That's an odd example ... I'm really struggling to understand what possible interpretation -mindepth could have here other than the one it has .. maybe someone might want to list all file

[bug #44221] Spurious warning about non-option arguments is spurious

2015-02-12 Thread Kamil Dudka
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #44221 (project findutils): That might be true in your simple case, but it does not hold in general. What about the following command for instance? find -type f -ls -a -mindepth 4 -delete ___ Reply to this item a

[bug #44221] Spurious warning about non-option arguments is spurious

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew McGill
Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44221 (project findutils): Indeed, you do need to order options and non-options, but only because of this spurious warning that is printed when you do not do so. It looks like the warning is intended to cater for options which affect tests after them, namely: -foll