Hi all,
I misread find(1) and did:
[weerdpom] $ find path/to/cam -name \*.JPG -exec cp {} path/to/store +
find: -exec no terminating ";" or "+"
That was somewhat surprising - there is a terminating "+". The error
really is that the "+" doesn't follow immediately after the "{}"
(which the manpage of course told me). Although it would be nice to
be able to use tools like cp and mv to -exec with +, I suspect there
to be dragons. So I'm proposing to change the error to point this out
to the unsuspecting user.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
Index: function.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/OpenBSD/cvs/src/usr.bin/find/function.c,v
retrieving revision 1.49
diff -u -p -r1.49 function.c
--- function.c 9 Apr 2020 15:07:49 -0000 1.49
+++ function.c 12 Nov 2020 19:42:49 -0000
@@ -572,9 +572,14 @@ c_exec(char *unused, char ***argvp, int
brace = 1;
if (strcmp(*ap, ";") == 0)
break;
- if (strcmp(*ap, "+") == 0 && lastbrace) {
- new->flags |= F_PLUSSET;
- break;
+ if (strcmp(*ap, "+") == 0) {
+ if (lastbrace) {
+ new->flags |= F_PLUSSET;
+ break;
+ } else {
+ errx(1, "%s: \"+\" should follow {}",
+ isok ? "-ok" : "-exec");
+ }
}
}
--
>++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+
+++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-]
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