bin/124084: find(1): find -execdir does not prepend ./ to filenames, causing problems for certain files.

Mon Mar 23 18:50:07 PDT 2009

The following reply was made to PR bin/124084; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Scott Sosna <scott at sosna.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, michael at smith-li.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: bin/124084: find(1): find -execdir does not prepend ./ to filenames,
 causing problems for certain files.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:29:15 -0500

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 The same problem occurs with touch:

 $ touch "-foo"
 touch: illegal option -- o
 usage: touch [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ...

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 <font size="-1"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The same
 problem occurs with touch:<br>
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 $ touch "-foo"<br>
 touch: illegal option -- o<br>
 usage: touch [-acfhm] [-r file] [-t [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]] file ...<br>
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