From: toonen AT mcs DOT anl DOT gov (Brian R. Toonen) Subject: find bug? 27 Oct 1998 09:21:32 -0800 Message-ID: <000101be010b$d5b92020$5ead8992.cygnus.gnu-win32@evil.mcs.anl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: I've discovered what I believe to be a bug in find. When searching for file of a particular name, find does not recurse into directories that have the same name as a directory earlier in the hierarchy. Enclosed below is an example of it not finding the file 'config' in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus. Since this works correctly on all of the variants of UNIX, I believe the bug is specific to the cygwin port of find or the cygwin library. Note: in a real world scenario, this bug results in autoreconf not updating the configure file in Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus. --brian $ mkdir Communications $ mkdir Communications/nexus $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/mp $ mkdir Communications/nexus/libraries/duct $ echo "config" > Communications/config $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/config $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/config $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config $ echo "config" > Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config $ find Communications -name config -print Communications/config Communications/nexus/config Communications/nexus/libraries/config Communications/nexus/libraries/duct/config Communications/nexus/libraries/mp/config $ find Communications -type d -print Communications Communications/nexus Communications/nexus/libraries Communications/nexus/libraries/duct Communications/nexus/libraries/mp Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus $ ls Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config Communications/nexus/libraries/nexus/config $ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".