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From:	Eric Blake <ebb9 AT byu DOT net>
Subject:	Re: find -execdir command executed in wrong directory
Date:	Wed, 6 Dec 2006 04:20:46 +0000 (UTC)
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David Rothenberger <daveroth <at> acm.org> writes:

> 
> 
> "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.

Thanks for the report. I'm forwarding it upstream, and hopefully a patch will 
be available soon.  The bug only affects the "-execdir {} +" version (you can 
still use the less efficient "-execdir {} \;").

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer



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