[bug #23920] find.1: please add short note about no trailing slashes for directories

[mouz]

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                 Summary: find.1: please add short note about no trailing
slashes for directories
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: mouz
            Submitted on: Wednesday 07/23/2008 at 23:11
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Zooko O'Whielacronx
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Please add a short note about the fact that for matching a directory one
should not use a trailing slash.

Motivation: the following does not do what some would expect at first sight.
The tree below emacs is also printed, while the user intended prune for it:

find . -path ./src/emacs/ -prune -o -print

(This request was originally filed by Zooko O'Whielacronx in the ubuntu
bugtracker at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6087. It was filed for an old
version of findutils, but I found the current manual page also does not
contain such a note.)




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