On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/15/2010 05:53 AM, James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> +#30777: find -exec echo TURNIP{} \+ is accepted but TURNIP is eaten
>
> LOL. I admit that I love the dry humor present in open source projects!
>
> POSIX says, for -exec ... +:
>
> "If a utility_name or argument string contains the two characters "{}",
> but not just the two characters "{}" , it is implementation-defined
> whether find replaces those two characters or uses the string without
> change."
Thanks for the correction. I pushed the patch unfortunately. If
you want to push a fix, that's just fine (it's worth amending the bug
too). I won't get round to it for a while, I'm getting married on
Monday.
Thanks,
James.
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