Bug 31075
| Summary: | `find -exec' emits spurious warnings | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dimitri Papadopoulos <dimitri.papadopoulos> |
| Component: | findutils | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2001-03-28 10:20:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Not a bug.
find scans the directory, sees dummy, and performs the test -exec rmdir {} \; on
it. The test deletes the file, and returns true. Find tries to touch the file
again, to pass it on the next test (there aren't any, but there could be.).
The file no longer exists, and find complains.
Well, all this explanation is fine except that the Unix 'find' utility doesn't emit this spurious warning (Solaris, SGI, etc.). Also this means that I cannot delete directories using find??? Finally I've searched for 'touch' in the find man page and there's no such thing as 'touch'. Why do you say find "tries to touch the file again"? Dimitri Hi,
Sorry for sounding like a broken record but the more I think about
it,the more I am convinced this is a bug. This explanation is not
satisfactory:
> Find tries to touch the file again, to pass it on the next
> test (there aren't any, but there could be.).
I understand this as "this is correct because this is the way it
is coded". This does not address this issues:
- Not only find emits a warning but it returns an error status.
- This behaviour is different from the behaviour of find on other
Unix (at least Solaris, Irix, Tru64) systems and is a cause of
incompatibilities when running scripts- crontabs script would
not work here.
- How am I supposed to delete directories using find?
find . -name dummy | xargs rmdir |
Hi, Try this: $ mkdir dummy $ ls -d dummy dummy $ find . -name dummy -exec rmdir {} \; find: ./dummy: No such file or directory $ ls -d dummy ls: dummy: No such file or directory $ The `find: ./dummy: No such file or directory' is wrong as far as I can tell. It seems that `find' runs some test after -exec, but it should be run before. Regards, Dimitri