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Date:	Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:12:13 -0800
From:	David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject:	find -execdir command executed in wrong directory
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"find -execdir" seems to be executing the command in the wrong
directory. If the file is in /tmp/a/b/c, the command is executed with
the current directory /tmp/a/b instead of /tmp/a/b/c. oldfind does the
right thing.

% cygcheck -cd findutils
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
findutils            4.3.2-1

% mkdir -p /tmp/findtest/a/b/{c,d}
% touch /tmp/findtest/a/b/{c,d}/somefile

% find /tmp/findtest/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/findtest/a/b/c/somefile
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/findtest/a/b
/tmp/findtest/a/b/d/somefile
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/findtest/a/b

% oldfind /tmp/findtest/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/findtest/a/b/c/somefile
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/findtest/a/b/c
/tmp/findtest/a/b/d/somefile
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/findtest/a/b/d


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