Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/10/02/19:49:39
In article <36138FA7 DOT 1A018084 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT sics DOT se>,
Olle Olsson <olleo AT sics DOT se> wrote:
>This explains the defective behavior when using find in situations like the following:
>
>dirMAJOR/
> dirXXX/ a full directory tree
> dirXXX.old the "isomorphic" directory tree with older versions of the same files
>
>Here it is guaranteed that if "find dirMAJOR -name 'foo*' " is performed, then
>directories with the same name will
>appear several times. Which is really dangerous if you rely upon "find" to
>find *all* the relevant files.
>
>So this bug needs to be fixed.
It should be fixed in recent coolviews and in B20 when it is released.
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