Re: cat inside find utility to start search directory list in a file

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 03:03:14PM +0200, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote:
> that -- is kind of base as -a --arg style args into unix sources, to
> separate em together
> 
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 15:02 Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev <fxmbsw7@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > another option instead of cpu intense <pe> the simpler -- argument may be
> > passed
> >
> > p=--path
> > find -- $p ( or "$p" if content of $p is more complicated )

This doesn't work in find, unfortunately.  It's a special case.

unicorn:~$ touch ./-foo
unicorn:~$ find -- -foo -print
find: unknown predicate `-foo'
unicorn:~$ find -foo -print
find: unknown predicate `-foo'

find doesn't provide any way to designate "the follow arguments are
all pathnames, even if they start with -".  Thus, the ./- workaround.