Re: RFE: allowing "" as a path specification for 'current dir' w/o prepending './' ?

2017-02-26 Thread L A Walsh
James Youngman wrote: Because, typically, -printf is used for output intended for humans rather than programs. Ahh... This is your 1st mistake. Interactive forms, and the ones used most often are supposed to be the shortest forms. Go back and look at early unix design docs. The de

Re: RFE: allowing "" as a path specification for 'current dir' w/o prepending './' ?

2017-02-26 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 7:44 AM, L.A. Walsh wrote: > > > James Youngman wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:52 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >> >> >> >>> Would it be possible or not unduly difficult to change >>> 'find' to recognize/allow a null path ("") specifically >>> to allow find to start at the