Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 208756
Find command misses certain Files when 1 level deep
Last modified: 2007-11-16 20:14:54 EST
Description of problem: Find utility fails to find some files in some situations, specifically when it is a certain level below the matched file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Centos 4.4 How reproducible: Happens repeatedly... only know of this particular example: [root@A64 Sites]# pwd /wrk/arc/athlon-cheryl/wrk/repos/ToCopy/Sites [root@A64 Sites]# find . -name Pub* ./PublicResearchQuestions [root@A64 Sites]# cd .. [root@A64 ToCopy]# pwd /wrk/arc/athlon-cheryl/wrk/repos/ToCopy [root@A64 ToCopy]# find . -name Pub* ./PublicDomain [root@A64 ToCopy]# cd .. [root@A64 repos]# pwd /wrk/arc/athlon-cheryl/wrk/repos [root@A64 repos]# find . -name Pub* ./ani/OpticalIllusions/PublicDomain ./ToCopy/PublicDomain ./ToCopy/Sites/PublicResearchQuestions [root@A64 repos]# Steps to Reproduce: 1. I don't know how to reproduce except in this circumstance. 2. 3. Actual results: Missing ./PublicResearchQuestions from 1 level deep Expected results: Additional info: drwxr-xr-x 3 d d 4096 Sep 29 16:25 PublicResearchQuestions
PS. Running on a A64 with dual processors on an ext3 LVM disk. I'm willing to help solve/test if you can help me setup and compile the find source code.
Shell command lines undergo pathname expansion before being passed to find(1), so the second find(1) command is equivalent to (find . -name PublicDomain)