On 2/22/07, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The GNU Coding Standards say that one shouldn't use the word "pathname" to describe file names.
Yes. For this reason findutils added a -wholename synonym for -path (RMS requested this). I complied, but now I think we may have chosen the name too hastily. The argument of -path may not be absolute (e.g. find foo -path foo/bar -prune -o -print) and so calling it -wholename is arguably misleading. However, I can't immediately think of a word what describes a qualified but not necessarily absolute path (e.g. foo/bar) which meets the GNU coding standards. Maybe "qualified file name", but that doesn't easily translate into a mnemonic name for a test. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
