Re: Bug in find

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:17:08AM +0000, Pete Tompkins wrote:
>   mkdir .a
>   >.a/b
>   find . -depth -name .a -exec ls -l {} \;
...
>   find: ./.a: No such file or directory
...
>   Linux 2.4.5  (Slackware distribution)
>   find (GNU find version 4.1)
> 
> Am I using the wrong version?

Works for me, with this configuration:
        Linux kernel version 2.2.18
        glibc-2.2.4
        GNU find version 4.1.7

I wanted to try 4.1 to find out whether this is the reason but it even
doesn't compile with my configuration.   So I gave up.

The 4.1 release is very old, so I'd try a newer one.
Since alpha.gnu.org doesn't have anything at the moment, you can try an
FTP search for findutils-4.1.7.tar.gz .

Or you can use cvs:
cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/findutils login
<hit Enter>

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/findutils co \
        -r FINDUTILS_4_1_7-2 -d findutils-4.1.7 findutils

With somewhat simpler command (after the cvs login):
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/findutils co findutils

you can try the newest developer version of findutils.

Just in case this information helps,
        Stepan Kasal