On 3/13/25 18:45, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
$ find "-)" "," "-!" "-ls" find: invalid expression: expected expression before closing parentheses '-)'.
This one seems to have been fixed with this commit: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=a5659a42fa2db What worries me more is the use of the extra dash '-' for the logical elements '-)' and '-!'. I've ever wondered about the line in the find_parser() function: if (*search_name == '-') search_name++; https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/tree/find/parser.c?id=faa13013686b179ab8f23a9ea7d238fb090c5ffe#n658 This statement exists since "the beginning" in the Git repository, but it looks just like to being able to use the same code for regular options and predicates (like -name) and the parser entries '(', ')', ',' and '!'. On the downside, this allows to prefix them with the dash, e.g. '-(', '-)', '-,' and '-!', and find(1) would accept them. $ find '-(' -name . '-)' . I'm wondering whether any serious, existing script makes use of that. Otherwise, I'd rather like to fix this. Opinions? Have a nice day, Berny
