[bug #51506] Better support for data processing with basenames

[James Youngman]

Update of bug #51506 (project findutils):

                Severity:              3 - Normal => 1 - Wish               
                  Status:                    None => Wont Fix               
             Assigned to:                    None => jay                    
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #13:

I recommend using an approach such as the one suggested by Bernhard.    

We're not going to change the behaviour of -print because this would make the
resulting executable fail to comply with POSIX.  We're not going to
create/build an an alternate executable with a different meaning of -print
because distributions won't include it anyway (they don't include the existing
alternate binary "oldfind" which we already have).

Consider "find" from a user-interface point of view.  It already has too many
options, primitives, tests etc.   The manual (both Texinfo and man) is large. 
Every additional option is a burden in maintenance (of tests, of the
implementation code, and of documentation).  For these reasons we apply a high
bar to the creation of new features.   Higher still for features whose
underlying use-case can easily be achieved by the use of _existing_ features
of find.


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