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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Filename length statistics
Message-ID: <13765@ncoast.ORG>
Date: 19 Jun 89 22:57:04 GMT
References: <19976@adm.BRL.MIL> <4530@ficc.uu.net> <14749@duke.cs.duke.edu> <14752@duke.cs.duke.edu> <8192@boring.cwi.nl>
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As quoted from <8192@boring.cwi.nl> by dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter):
+---------------
| In article <14752@duke.cs.duke.edu> bet@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 ".".
+---------------

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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