Since then we have living with a GPL'ed find(1) due to grabbing getdate.y
from src/contrib/cvs and its user of the GPL'ed xtime.h. I don't even want
to think about how this could have affected people using our source base.
Would it have been too much trouble to do then what I did now?
Copied getdate.y (public domain) to usr.bin/find and change to use
standard system headers. find(1) now compiles simply with out having
to go to extra effort to do so.
Pointed hat to: phk
Build fixed on: gcc 3.1 using platforms
documented behavior. Only a certain set of file flags were recognized,
and "no" flags did not match files that have corresponding flags bits
turned off.
Fix and extend the -flags functionality as follows:
: -flags [-|+]<flags>,<notflags>
: The flags are specified using symbolic names (see chflags(1)).
: Those with the "no" prefix (except "nodump") are said to be
: <notflags>. Flags in <flags> are checked to be set, and flags in
: <notflags> are checked to be not set. Note that this is different
: from -perm, which only allows the user to specify mode bits that
: are set.
:
: If flags are preceded by a dash (``-''), this primary evaluates
: to true if at least all of the bits in <flags> and none of the bits
: in <notflags> are set in the file's flags bits. If flags are pre-
: ceded by a plus (``+''), this primary evaluates to true if any of
: the bits in <flags> is set in the file's flags bits, or any of the
: bits in <notflags> is not set in the file's flags bits. Otherwise,
: this primary evaluates to true if the bits in <flags> exactly match
: the file's flags bits, and none of the <flags> bits match those of
: <notflags>.
MFC after: 2 weeks
-anewer
-cnewer
-mnewer
-okdir
-newer[acm][acmt]
With it, you can form queries like
find . -newerct '1 minute ago' -print
As an extra bonus, the program is ANSI-fied - the original version
relies on some obscure features of K&R C.
(This PR was submitted in 1999, and the submittor has kept the patch
updated ever since, hats off for him guys, and how about you close a PR ??)
PR: 9374
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <Martin.Birgmeier@aon.at>
-E Interpret regular expressions followed by -regex and -iregex op-
tions as extended (modern) regular expressions rather than basic
regular expressions (BRE's). The re_format(7) manual page fully
describes both formats.
-iname pattern
Like -name, but the match is case insensitive.
-ipath pattern
Like -path, but the match is case insensitive.
-regex pattern
True if the whole path of the file matches pattern using regular
expression. To match a file named ``./foo/xyzzy'', you can use
the regular expression ``.*/[xyz]*'' or ``.*/foo/.*'', but not
``xyzzy'' or ``/foo/''.
-iregex pattern
Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive.
These are meant to be compatible with other find(1) implementations
such as GNU's or NetBSD's except regexp library differences.
Reviewed by: sobomax, dcs, and some other people on -current
is empty. There doesn't appear to be another easy way to do this.
mobile# mkdir foo
mobile# mkdir foo/bar
mobile# mkdir bar
mobile# find . -empty
./foo/bar
./bar
an error. As it was, which find command lines that would work (be
accepted at all) was dependent on the presently running kernel, making
script writing and porting hard.
behave as in GNU find (and of course as described in the manual page
diff included). I think these options would be useful for some people.
Some missing $FreeBSD$ tags are also added.
The patch was slightly modified (send-pr mangling of TABS).
PR: bin/18941
Submitted by: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
or if the mode is preceded by a '-', it checks for a match
in at least the bits specified on the command line. It is
often desirable to find things with any execute or setuid or
setgid bits set.
PR: bin/10169
Submitted by: Monte Mitzelfelt <monte@gonefishing.org>
interface, and statically link them to the programs using them.
These functions, upon reflection and discussion, are too generically
named for a library interface with such specific functionality.
Also the api that they use, whilst ok for private use, isn't good
enough for a libc function.
Additionally there were complications with the build/install-world
process. It depends heavily upon xinstall, which got broken by
the change in api, and caused bootstrap problems and general mayhem.
There is work in progress to address future problems that may be
caused by changes in install-chain tools, and better names for
{g|s}etflags can be derived when some future program requires them.
For now the code has been left in src/lib/libc/gen (it started off
in src/bin/ls).
It's important to provide library functions for manipulating file
flag strings if we ever want this interface to be adopted outside
of the source tree, but now isn't necessarily the right moment
with 4.0-release just around the corner.
Approved: jkh
string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and
string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed
more and more other tools have used these private functions to
manipulate the file flags.
Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil,
but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they
really ought to go in libc.
There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file
modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string
has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags.
The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
I added $FreeBSD$ whicle I was here. The patch wasn't usable anymore
due to its age so I adapted it.
PR: bin/3648
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com>
(and can be both files or directories). Show white space between
"(", ")", "!" and their corresponding `expression' arguments as
expected by the expression parser inside find(1).
Prompted by: David Honig <David.Honig@idt.com> on freebsd-doc
Message-Id: <199904132055.NAA09432@justinian.Eng.idt.com>
execvp() in the child branch of a vfork(). Changed to use fork()
instead.
Some of these (mv, find, apply, xargs) might benefit greatly from
being rewritten to use vfork() properly.
PR: Loosely related to bin/8252
Approved by: jkh and bde
doesn't know about getvfsbyname() and the vfsconf structure. This
disables the -fstype option if compiled with a pre-processor that
defines __NetBSD__. With the FreeBSD built pre-processor, find can only
be built with the FreeBSD libc. So when running with a NetBSD kernel,
FreeBSD's libc will have to return ENOSYS for things that NetBSD
doesn't support. That's life in a hybrid world.
in question. This change and the fts changes should be merged into 2.2-stable
as soon as they are vetted in -current. This should allow cleaning of files
in /tmp to be reneabled.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
kind of expressions caused a dereferencation of an uninitialized malloc
area, yielding wrong expression evaluation at best, and core dumps at
worst (malloc.conf -> AJ):
find ... ! \( expr1 ! expr2 \) ...
This error results from changing the name for the msdos file system
from "pcfs" to "msdos". Close PR #1105
submitted by: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de>,
Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
goes to a fair degree of trouble to enable something like this to
be safe: cd /tmp && find . -mtime +7 -delete
It removes both files and directories. It does not attempt to remove
immutable files (an earlier version I showed to a few people did a chflags
and tried to blow away even immutable files. Too risky..)
It is thought to be safe because it forces the fts(3) driven descent to
only do "minimal risk" stuff. specifically, -follow is disabled, it does
checking to see that it chdir'ed to the directory it thought it was
going to, it will *not* pass a pathname with a '/' character in it to
unlink(), so it should be totally immune to symlink tree races. If it runs
into something "fishy", it bails out rather than blunder ahead.. It's better
to do that if somebody is trying to compromise security rather than risk
giving them an opportunity. Since the unlink()/rmdir() is being called
from within the current working directory during the tree descent, there
are no fork/exec overheads or races.
As a side effect of this paranoia, you cannot do a
"find /somewhere/dir -delete", as the last argument to rmdir() is
"/somewhere/dir", and the checking won't allow it. Besides, one would use
rm -rf for that case anyway. :-)
Reviewed by: pst (some time ago, but I've removed the immutable file
deletion code that he complained about since he last saw it)
[ Find to a file vs. to stdout ] produces different output because find
does not flush stdout when doing a -print.
Submitted by: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.freebsd.org>
