[bug #15195] misleading error message

[Eric Blake]

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                 Summary: misleading error message
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ericb
            Submitted on: Mon 12/12/05 at 07:01
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Eric Blake
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.27
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Quality of implementation bug:

$ find \( \)
find: invalid expression; you have too many ')'

Actually, I have a balanced set of \( \), the error message in this case
would better be worded as something like:

find: invalid expression; expecting an expression between '(' and ')'

Or you could change the behavior as an extension to POSIX, and treat \( \)
the same as \( -true \), although I wouldn't recommend that.







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