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

[Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev]

oh mysuxx i didnt know and didnt test
sorry, ..

On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 15:51 Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>