[bug #23920] find.1: please add short note about no trailing slashes for directories

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #23920 (project findutils):

"shell pattern" does have a specific meaning; see 
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_13
for example. 

I don't understand your point here:

<< Note that the result line of an object differs depending on the given
search path, you have take care of this in your "-path" expressions.

Example:
cd ~
find find1 ./find1 ~/find1 -type d -name "test1"
=> find1/test1
=> ./find1/test1
=> /root/find1/test1 (or /home/<user>/find1/test1) 
>>

The example presumably relates to the paragraph before it, but it doesn't use
-path.

Certainly -name 'foo/' will not match anything, since / is not part of the
basename of any file other than / and //.   On the other hand "-path foo/"
will match something if ./foo/. exists and foo/ was a command line argument.

This behaviour is required by POSIX; see
http://www.opengroup.org/austin/interps/uploads/40/14959/AI-186.txt

However, maybe I misunderstood your point an so I'm responding to something
you didn't actually say.


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