Follow-up Comment #1, bug #56855 (project findutils):
There is also a case for having the empty string there. If it was the case for
%f as well, that would mean that -printf %h/%f would always be equivalent to
-printf %p
More importantly, in cases like:
find / -name foo -printf '%h/bar\0' |
xargs -r0 cmd
that means you don't get an incorrect //bar when foo is found in /.
Remember that //foo is not guaranteed by POSIX to be the same as /foo (and in
practice is not on some systems like cygwin).
The :h and :t history modifiers of tcsh and bash (not zsh) do return the empty
string for /
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