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Joachim Ansorg edited this page Nov 12, 2021
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Some finds don't have a default path. Specify . explicitly.
Problematic code:
find -type fCorrect code:
find . -type fRationale:
When not provided a search path, GNU and Busybox find will use a default path of ., the current directory.
On POSIX, macOS/OSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD, it will instead result in an error.
Explicitly specifying a path works across all implementations, and is therefore preferred.
Exceptions:
You will get a false positive if you concatenate a series of pre-path flags:
find -XLE .
In such cases, please either use find -X -L -E . or ignore the message.