On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 09:04:53AM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Alexander Hall wrote:
> | I googled for "POSIX find", and hit this:
> |
> | https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/find.html
> |
> | => "Only a plus sign that follows an argument containing the two
> | characters "{}" shall punctuate the end of the primary expression.
> | Other uses of the plus sign shall not be treated as special."
>
> Yep, I also found that when looking into this. It's unforunate, as it
> implies you can't use `-exec {} ... +` with e.g. ln, mv or cp, but oh
> well.
>
> (also, nitpicking, 'an argument containing the two characters "{}"'
> includes an argument like "hh}hh{hh", which I'm pretty sure is not
> what they mean)
>
> | What you do in your diff is exactly that, treating it special.
>
> I'm not sure I agree. I make sure I do not treat it special unless
^^^^^^
> it's at the end of the argument to 'exec'. Can you elaborate on what
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> you mean here?
If it is not following {}, then it should not be treated as such. You
are assuming (or guessing) it was meant to be that special '+'.
Carefully crafted example of failing quoting of ';':
$ obj/find . -exec echo + ; # Just print a '+' for every entry
find: -exec: "+" should follow {}
The more I read and think about it, I feel the original error message is
actually correct in that there is no terminating ";" or "+", since the
required condition for it is not fullfilled...
/Alexander
>
> Thanks!
>
> Paul
>
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