On 2005-10-27 Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.2.25-1
> Severity: important
> File: /usr/bin/find
> Please either justify or revert the -[i]path to -[i]wholename change. If
> "whole name" has any meaning with Unix path names, it is the (whole)
> part after the last "/".
> Spewing warnings for some of the most common options isn't acceptable
> except for very good reasons.
Hello,
This was triggered by this mail:
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From: James Youngman
Date:
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:31:20AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> find has options called -path and -ipath;
> however, this use of the word "path" is contrary
> to GNU standards.
(This is documented in section "GNU Manuals" of standards.texi)
> Could you add, for the next version, new options called -wholename and
> -iwholename, which do the same jobs?
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The respective paragraph in GNU standards says (afaict):
| Please do not use the term “pathname” that is used in Unix
| documentation; use “file name” (two words) instead. We use the term
| “path” only for search paths, which are lists of directory names.
And I tend to agree with that, "path" usually refers to directories
and not "directory/filename".
cu andreas
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