Package: findutils Version: 4.7.0-1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/find find do have rather annoying behaviour of dealing with entry points:
$ find -xdev -- /usr find: unknown predicate `--' $ find -name x -- /usr find: unknown predicate `--' $ find -name x /usr find: paths must precede expression: `/usr' find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-name'? $ find -xdev /usr find: paths must precede expression: `/usr' find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-xdev'? $ That is unfortunate. And always messes me up. Almost all tools in UNIX that can take multiple raw paths at the end of the argument list, and if needed be used with --. Not only that, it makes it weird to use find in some reliable scripts. $ cd /tmp/ /tmp$ mkdir -- --foo /tmp$ find --foo -type f find: unknown predicate `--foo' /tmp$ find -- --foo -type f # Obviously is not going to work. find: unknown predicate `--foo' /tmp$ find ./--foo -type f /tmp$ find -type f -- --foo find: unknown predicate `--' /tmp$ The need to use ./ is just a bit silly: /tmp$ find ./--foo -type f /tmp$ # WORKS. I know this is a wishlist, and could possibly break POSIX compatibility, but I don't see how, and if needed this functionality could be simply enabled via extra flag or environment variable. There is already POSIXLY_CORRECT which could be used for this. But the fact, that one could introduce -- to deal with it, would make it pretty safe. Thanks. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages findutils depends on: ii libc6 2.29-2 ii libselinux1 2.9-2+b2 findutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages findutils suggests: pn mlocate | locate <none> -- no debconf information
