From 6cd5d3b1a82f2dd72fe6bbc6bc280809beef4c29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Youngman Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 23:45:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] find: state that -execdir command is run locally to the matched file. To: findutils-patches@gnu.org * doc/find.texi (Single File): Correct the description of what the current directory will be when the command specified by -execdir gets run. This fixes a documentation but reported by Eric Hanchrow. * NEWS: Mention this fix. --- ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++ NEWS | 6 ++++++ doc/find.texi | 5 +++-- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 076c0d4..ec474c2 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2013-09-21 James Youngman + + find: state that -execdir command is run locally to the matched file. + * doc/find.texi (Single File): Correct the description of what the + current directory will be when the command specified by -execdir + gets run. This fixes a documentation but reported by Eric + Hanchrow. + * NEWS: Mention this fix. + 2013-09-21 Bernhard Voelker xargs: wait for process before prompting in interactive mode (-p) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a08ec91..9202acc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ clarity. The documentation for xargs now warns about parallel processes (xargs -P) sharing stdout. +The documentation for find -execdir now describes correctly that the +command will be executed in the same directory as the file we were +considering at the time. The documentation previously (and +incorrectly) stated that the original working directory of find would +be used. + ** Bug Fixes Some bugs in 4.5.11 were fixed without adding them to the bug diff --git a/doc/find.texi b/doc/find.texi index 94d4c5c..f913965 100644 --- a/doc/find.texi +++ b/doc/find.texi @@ -2117,8 +2117,9 @@ an argument consisting of @samp{;} is reached. It replaces the string @samp{@{@}} by the current file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the command. Both of these constructions need to be escaped (with a @samp{\}) or quoted to protect them from expansion by the -shell. The command is executed in the directory in which @code{find} -was run. +shell. The command is executed in the directory which @code{find} +was searching at the time the action was executed (that is, @{@} will +expand to a file in the local directory). For example, to compare each C header file in or below the current directory with the file @file{/tmp/master}: -- 1.7.10.4