Re: A new utility: trv

[James Youngman]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:29:35PM +0100, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Once  findutils does the decent thing...
>    trv() { ... }
> 
> Don't see why this would be decent, since it can already be done with
> a bit of shell as I already pointed out.  

Just user convenience, nothing more.

> What would happen if you do:
> 
> find . -type f -execdir "echo {}" \;

Supposing you prepared with 

   mkdir /tmp/foo ; cd /tmp/foo ; touch a b c
   mkdir /tmp/foo/baz ; cd /tmp/foo/baz ; touch x y 
   cd /tmp/foo

then the command you suggest would produce something like 

./a
./c
./b
./y
./x

... but possibly in a different order, because readdir() returns
directory entries in no specific order.   

However, GNU findutils does not yet implement -execdir (it is
currently only a *BSD feature, depite the fact that it is far superior
from a security point of view, since it allows find to avoid race
conditions).  GNU findutils will implement -execdir eventually.

James.