[bug #15194] bad parse on ( option )

[Eric Blake]

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                 Summary: bad parse on ( option )
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ericb
            Submitted on: Mon 12/12/05 at 06:58
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Eric Blake
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.27
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

This should succeed (albeit with the warning) rather than fail, since -depth
is a valid expression.  Likewise to all the other expression options, if \(
and \) are separated by any valid expression, even if it is not a test, find
should correctly parse the command line.

Buggy:
$ find \( -depth \)
find/find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option
argument (, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified
before it as well as those specified after it).  Please specify options
before other arguments.

find/find: invalid expression; you have too many ')'

Expected:
$ find -depth \( -true \)
./Entries
./Entries.Log
./Repository
./Root
./Template
.
$ find -depth \( -depth \)
find/find: warning: you have specified the -depth option after a non-option
argument (, but options are not positional (-depth affects tests specified
before it as well as those specified after it).  Please specify options
before other arguments.

./Entries
./Entries.Log
./Repository
./Root
./Template
.







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