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

2017-02-27 Thread L A Walsh
Oops... correction, 'du' does prepend, 'ls' does not. So either behavior could be justified...on that basis... ;-)

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

2017-02-27 Thread L A Walsh
Bernhard Voelker wrote: On 02/26/2017 08:44 AM, L.A. Walsh wrote: Adding "./" when the user doesn't want it is unsafe because they will remove it, creating another source of errors. Thus said, treating the empty '' argument as "." for the traversal but at the same time not doing so fo

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

2017-02-27 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 02/26/2017 08:44 AM, L.A. Walsh wrote: > Adding "./" when the user doesn't want it is unsafe because they > will remove it, creating another source of errors. I see it different: find does not "prepend" the "./". Instead, $ find without any path argument assumes the current directory as the s