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bug #26057: find -execdir {} + gives unexpected results

Submitter:  Don <dmca>
Submitted:  Tue 31 Mar 2009 11:21:14 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  find Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  Duplicate
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Fixed Release:  None
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Tue 31 Mar 2009 11:26:14 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Actually, scrap that. This is just just a duplicate of bug #19593

(I had read the bug before posting, but it didn't sink into my head properly. Apologies for the duplication)

Don <dmca>
Tue 31 Mar 2009 11:21:14 AM UTC, original submission:  

-execdir {} + and -execdir {} \; give identical results when -exec {} + and -exec {} \; give different results. For example:

If I construct a directort structure such that:

user@host:~$ ls -R
.:
dir1
dir2
dir3

./dir1:
file1a
file1b
file1c

./dir2:
file2a
file2b
file2c

./dir3:
file3a
file3b
file3c


-exec {} + will run a command on each file simultaneously:

user@host:~$ find . -iname 'file*' -exec echo {} +
./dir2/file2a ./dir2/file2b ./dir2/file2c ./dir3/file3c ./dir3/file3a ./dir3/file3b ./dir1/file1b ./dir1/file1a ./dir1/file1c


Whereas -exec {} \; will echo each file individually.

-execdir {} + runs the echo command on each file individually (from within the subdirectories) and not (as I would have thought is meant to be the case) three times, once per subdirectory:

user@host:~$ find . -iname 'file*' -execdir echo {} +
./file2a
./file2b
./file2c
./file3c
./file3a
./file3b
./file1b
./file1a
./file1c


The output from find . -iname 'file*' -execdir echo {} \; is identical.

Appologies if I'm not being clear or if I'm making a basic error somewhere. I'm pretty new to using find and am not a complete expert using the shell.This is version 4.4.0 of find
 


Don <dmca>

 

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    2009-03-31 ericb StatusNone Duplicate
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    2009-03-31 ericb Dependencies- Depends on bugs #19593

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