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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] weird in find -exec command Post 302695285 by alister on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 01:37:57 PM
Old 09-02-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lem
That pattern it's a directory tree path rooted at each given file name , so it's not necessarily a directory inside which find will begin its searches.
Notice that post #3's -exec ls ... output contains duplicate filenames. There is nothing in that find command that prints a matching file name twice (and non-consecutively), and since a directory cannot contain two identically-named files, the shell must be matching one or more directories with that pattern (in addition to *test* files in tmp, if any).

With a directory path, the -exec predicates of those find commands will list or attempt to delete every regular file in that directory and its subdirectories, regardless of a file's name.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Lem
It should != it must. Smilie
True, but it's preferable to be precise and avoid this type of unnecessary bug.

Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 09-02-2012 at 03:24 PM..
 

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go-packages

GO-PACKAGES(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					    GO-PACKAGES(7)

NAME

       go - tool for managing Go source code

DESCRIPTION

       Many commands apply to a set of packages:

	     go action [packages]

       Usually, [packages] is a list of import paths.

       An  import path that is a rooted path or that begins with a . or .. element is interpreted as a file system path and denotes the package in
       that directory.

       Otherwise, the import path P denotes the package found in the directory DIR/src/P for some DIR listed in the  GOPATH  environment  variable
       (see 'go help gopath').

       If no import paths are given, the action applies to the package in the current directory.

       The  special  import path "all" expands to all package directories found in all the GOPATH trees.  For example, 'go list all' lists all the
       packages on the local system.

       The special import path "std" is like all but expands to just the packages in the standard Go library.

       An import path is a pattern if it includes one or more "..." wildcards, each of which can match any string, including the empty string  and
       strings	containing slashes.  Such a pattern expands to all package directories found in the GOPATH trees with names matching the patterns.
       As a special case, x/... matches x as well as x's subdirectories.  For example, net/... expands to net and packages in its subdirectories.

       An import path can also name a package to be downloaded from a remote repository.  Run 'go help remote' for details.

       Every package in a program must have a unique import path.  By convention, this is arranged by starting each path with a unique prefix that
       belongs	to  you.   For example, paths used internally at Google all begin with 'google', and paths denoting remote repositories begin with
       the path to the code, such as 'code.google.com/p/project'.

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