Re: examples in find's man page

2016-07-16 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Isabella Parakiss wrote: > > find's man page has some god-awful examples: > > > find . -type f -exec file '{}' \; > > > > Runs `file' on every file in or below the current directory. Notice > > that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them > >

Re: xargs --negate-interactive

2016-07-16 Thread James Youngman
I quite like the idea. Here's an example implementation of a flag that could be used in a shell function/alias, if that's your thing. Comments? On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 04/10/2016 04:26 PM, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote: > >> "BV" == Bernhard Voelker writes:

[bug #48314] find -type f matches symlinks in armel armhf and mipsel

2016-07-16 Thread Eric Blake
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #48314 (project findutils): The C standard does not guarantee NULL pointers from xzalloc(), but POSIX does: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=940 and GNU has relied on that for years, with no real complaints of a compiler/platform mis-handling NULL. ___

[bug #48314] find -type f matches symlinks in armel armhf and mipsel

2016-07-16 Thread James Youngman
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #48314 (project findutils): One minor nit about the use of xzalloc: it sets the bits to zero, but this is not guaranteed by the C standard to set pointer members to NULL (since NULL is not guaranteed to be all-bits-zero). ___