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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Warning using 'find'. Post 302985364 by wisecracker on Tuesday 8th of November 2016 01:17:12 PM

11-08-2016

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Warning using 'find'.

This is more of a discovery than a bug and for OSX 10.12.x, maybe earlier but I don't have them now.

Consider this code:-

Code:

		# Auto-find the correct path and "sox" file, but it WILL take a very long time...
		# NOTE: It searches from YOUR HOME directory structure only, just modify to suit your machine if 'SOX' is elsewhere.
		capturepath=$(find "$HOME" -name 'sox' 2>/dev/null)

This works perfectly with a virgin install of SOX, (in this case inside my $HOME directory).
I decided to install the latest version of SOX 14.4.2.
I then placed the original into the "Trash", that is "$HOME"/.Trash/ directory.
Next I launched "./AudioScope.sh" and as expected DEMO worked perfectly.
THEN; I decided to run the SOX command inside the code and the code literally crashed out.
The error report pointed to "$HOME/.Trash/sox-14.4.0/sox" so it looks as though the 'find' command searches the "$HOME"/.Trash/ directory also.
Unlike the AMIGA, OSX cannot run code from inside its Trashcan hence the total crashout.
So let this be a warning to others if you have a previous version of something in the Trashcan and another version elsewhere and you intend to find it using the 'find' command then EXPECT a bug as "$HOME"/.Trash/ is searched early in the scan.

I hope this is useful to others.

Bazza...

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RESTORE-TRASH(1)					      General Commands Manual						  RESTORE-TRASH(1)

NAME

       restore-trash - Restore for Command line trash utility.

SYNOPSIS

       restore-trash

DESCRIPTION

       Use  for  restore  a  trashed file or directory, in the original path.  This command is a part of trash-cli package that provides a command
       line interface trashcan utility compliant with the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification.	It remembers the  name,  original  path,  deletion
       date, and permissions of each trashed file.

EXAMPLES

       $ restore-trash
       0 2007-08-30 12:36:00 /home/andrea/foo
       1 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar
       2 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/bar2
       3 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo2
       4 2007-08-30 12:39:41 /home/andrea/foo
       What file to restore [0..4]: 4
       $ ls foo
       foo

BUGS

       Report bugs to http://code.google.com/p/trash-cli/issues

AUTHORS

       Trash  was  written by Andrea Francia <andreafrancia@users.sourceforge.net> and Einar Orn Olason <eoo@hi.is>.  This manual page was written
       by Steve Stalcup <vorian@ubuntu.com>.  Changes made by Massimo Cavalleri <submax@tiscalinet.it>.

SEE ALSO

       trash-put(1), trash-list(1), trash-empty(1), and the FreeDesktop.org Trash Specification at http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later.

																  RESTORE-TRASH(1)