find 4.2.20 "-name" option

[Darrell Tangman]

I just installed findutils 4.2.20 and am finding that existing scripts 
need tweaking. The latest problem (and the only thing that appears to be 
an actual bug, and not just an incompatibility) is that the command

   find . -name '*' -print

begins its output with ".", followed by "./somename", where "somename" is 
the first name found in the current directory. According to the 
documentation, "*" does not match "." at the beginning of the basename; it 
appears that find is now treating the basename of "." as an empty string, 
which is a very curious behavior. The expected behavior can be achieved 
with

   find . -name '*' -not -name . -print

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