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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:45:55 +0400
From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
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To: mlist@bogusville.us, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: possible problem with "find . -name blah -o -name blah2"
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Greetings, mlist@bogusville.us!

> using CYGWIN_NT-6.1, bash 4.1.11(2) and find 4.5.12, the following returns
> immediately

>    find . -name \*.cs -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp -exec ls {} \;

> pick your favorite for 'ls'

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 daemon2 1.7.32s(0.274/5/3) 20140807 16:26:58 i686 Cygwin

$ find . -name \*.cs -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp -exec ls {} \;
./farmanager-read-only/enc/enc_rus/meta/articles/panel/panelplugin.1/desktop.cpp
./farmanager-read-only/enc/enc_rus/meta/articles/panel/panelplugin.1/main.cpp
./farmanager-read-only/enc/enc_rus/meta/articles/panel/panelplugin.1/mix.cpp
./farmanager-read-only/misc/fexcept/execdump/ExcDump.cpp
./farmanager-read-only/misc/fexcept/execdump/test/test.cpp
./farmanager-read-only/misc/fexcept/execdump/xxlib/Std/2asm.cpp

> this works as expected

>    find . -name \*.cs -o -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp

> it's probably not a horrible problem but i thought i'd report it.

Can't seems to replicate it on my setup. Do you use 64-bit Cygwin?

Discussion aside, please use -execdir rather than -exec to avoid race
conditions in a time gap between find's decision to run something and
actually running that something.


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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 21.08.2014, <02:39>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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