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[Brandon S. Allbery]

As quoted from <8192 at boring.cwi.nl> by dik at cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
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| In article <14752 at duke.cs.duke.edu> bet at orion.mc.duke.edu (Bennett Todd) writes:
|  > misinformation. Find(1) is of course smart enough to refrain from
|  > reporting "." and ".."; indeed,
| ...
| Wrongo again.  Of course find is smart enough to include ".".
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Sigh.  Find includes "." ONLY if you say "find . (...)".  ONE instance,
maximum.  (If you were correct then find would have output like:

		/foo/bar
		/foo/bar/.
		/foo/bar/baz
		...

and watch everything that uses find break!)

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