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[Findutils-patches] Re: [PATCH] Fix Savannah bug #30777.


From: James Youngman
Subject: [Findutils-patches] Re: [PATCH] Fix Savannah bug #30777.
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:32:08 +0100

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 05:53 AM, James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> +#30777: find -exec echo TURNIP{} \+ is accepted but TURNIP is eaten
>
> LOL.  I admit that I love the dry humor present in open source projects!
>
> POSIX says, for -exec ... +:
>
> "If a utility_name or argument string contains the two characters "{}",
> but not just the two characters "{}" , it is implementation-defined
> whether find replaces those two characters or uses the string without
> change."

Thanks for the correction.    I pushed the patch unfortunately.   If
you want to push a fix, that's just fine (it's worth amending the bug
too).    I won't get round to it for a while, I'm getting married on
Monday.

Thanks,
James.



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