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

2017-03-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 03/03/2017 02:23 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > Why would there be anyone else on my systems? You never walk alone: $ ps -ae -o uid | grep -v UID | sort -u | wc -l 10 Have a nice day, Berny

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

2017-03-02 Thread Bernhard Voelker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/2017 11:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > I think that always outputting ./ by default is a GOOD thing, and that if you > want to strip it, you should put in > extra effort (whether that be post-processing, [...]) E.g. with realpath(1): $ find -e

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

2017-03-02 Thread L A Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: For the record, POSIX That's already been stated in the prior conversation, even though you claim you know that: "Please don't assume that I haven't been following the conversation". So why are you repeating closed issues? find '' magically starting t

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

2017-03-02 Thread L A Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: Ah, but that's where you're missing the point. Changing interactive behavior does NOT require that you are forced to always type the new command-line option, because you are free to set up a wrapper function, alias, or script on $PATH, which will supply that option on your beh

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

2017-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/28/2017 11:28 AM, James Youngman wrote: >> (in the sense that the find command line is a little language with >>> specified semantics and the user is communicating their wishes by using >>> that language). POSIX specifies no semantics for the case where no path >>> name argument is specifie

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

2017-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/02/2017 04:24 PM, L A Walsh wrote: >> Please, do NOT make the behavior depend on an environment variable. >Please do not make blanket statements: A foolish consistency is > the Hobgoblin of small minds.", and please don't come into the > middle of a discussion without reading the previo

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

2017-03-02 Thread L A Walsh
Eric Blake wrote: On 03/02/2017 01:25 AM, L A Walsh wrote: However given that some like the current behavior, a way to allow users a choice of of no-path being the same as "." or not-prepending "dot" would be the addition of an ENV var along the lines of "FIND_NOPATH_PREPENDS_NODOT" (or wh

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

2017-03-02 Thread Eric Blake
On 03/02/2017 01:25 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > However given that some like the current behavior, a way to > allow users a choice of of no-path being the same as "." or > not-prepending "dot" would be the addition of an ENV var > along the lines of "FIND_NOPATH_PREPENDS_NODOT" (or whatever!). Please,