Re: Minor documentation issue: escaping {}

2023-10-18 Thread James Youngman
Bash promises to leave incorrectly-formed brace expressions unchanged, and this is why {} on input yields {} on find's command-line. {} is incorrectly formed since it doesn't contain a sequence expression or a comma. But is the same guarantee provided by other shells that also perform brace expa

Re: Minor documentation issue: escaping {}

2023-10-14 Thread Bernhard Voelker
On 10/7/23 00:11, Keith Thompson wrote: As of the latest version of findutils (commit e6e2d10a, Mon 2023-10-02), the man and info documentation both incorrectly state that {} needs to be escaped. In the info documentation, section 3.3.1: It replaces the string '{}' by the current file name bein

Minor documentation issue: escaping {}

2023-10-07 Thread Keith Thompson
As of the latest version of findutils (commit e6e2d10a, Mon 2023-10-02), the man and info documentation both incorrectly state that {} needs to be escaped. In the info documentation, section 3.3.1: > It replaces the string '{}' by the current file name being processed > everywhere it occurs in the