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Re: [bug #52890] `find --name` ignores files with non-printable charact


From: H.-Dirk Schmitt
Subject: Re: [bug #52890] `find --name` ignores files with non-printable character in the filename
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:26:30 +0100

On Mo, 2018-01-15 at 10:54 -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #52890 (project findutils):
> 
> You've discovered a fundamental flaw in the specification of the
> glob()function 

[…]
> But what you CAN do is specify 'LC_ALL=C find' for any

[…]

So the second main utility I found recently with flawed behaviour if
not LC_ALL=C is in effect :-/

So this should have at least a prominent mentioning in the online help 
(find --help, man help, …) to avoid the same debugging mess why a user
script doesn't worked as expected.












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