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From: David Rothenberger <daveroth AT acm DOT org>
Subject: Re: find -execdir command executed in wrong directory
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On 12/5/2006 8:20 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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 {} \;").
> 

I've encountered another similar problem. This one seems to be triggered
by a directory that comes after some files in a directory.

% cygcheck -cd findutils
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
findutils            4.3.2-3

% mkdir -p /tmp/a/b/c
% touch /tmp/a/b/a{1,2}
% find /tmp/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/a/b/a1
/tmp/a/b/a2
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/a/b/c

The last output should have been /tmp/a/b, not /tmp/a/b/c.

% oldfind /tmp/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/a/b/a1
/tmp/a/b/a2
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/a/b

If /tmp/a/b/c is removed, it works correctly.

% rmdir /tmp/a/b/c
% find /tmp/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/a/b/a1
/tmp/a/b/a2
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/a/b

It also works correctly if the files come after the directory.

% mkdir /tmp/a/b/a0
% find /tmp/a -type f -print -execdir pwd {} +
/tmp/a/b/a1
/tmp/a/b/a2
pwd: ignoring non-option arguments
/tmp/a/b


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