Issues on FIND

[taersh]

Hi.

I have a script to find files in a directory. Lately I found an issue using find. It doesn't seem to find anything anymore, if the slash on the end of the search path is missing.

This works:

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#!/bin/bash
rm -f /root/tmp/Win-VST-List.txt
Path="/root/Win-VST/"
Files=`find "$Path" -maxdepth 8`
echo "$Files" |while read F
do
	if [[ "$F" != "" && "$F" = *.so ]]; then
		#echo "$F"
		echo "`basename "$F"`"
		echo "`basename "$F"`" >>/root/tmp/Win-VST-List.txt
	fi
done

Though, this doesn't work (at least on my machine with Bionic64)

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#!/bin/bash
rm -f /root/tmp/Win-VST-List.txt
Path="/root/Win-VST"
Files=`find "$Path" -maxdepth 8`
echo "$Files" |while read F
do
	if [[ "$F" != "" && "$F" = *.so ]]; then
		#echo "$F"
		echo "`basename "$F"`"
		echo "`basename "$F"`" >>/root/tmp/Win-VST-List.txt
	fi
done

In my older Puppies e.g. Tahr it doesn't make a difference. Now I have to edit lots of my scripts.

When was this changed?

[s243a]

In my older Puppies e.g. Tahr it doesn't make a difference. Now I have to edit lots of my scripts.

When was this changed?

As a wild guess, might it depend on the version of find? For instance might there be subtle differences between the busybox and full version of find?

[williams2]

There is a big difference between a directory and a symbolic symlink to a directory. The symlink is a file and find will treat it as a file. A symlink with a trailing slash will be treated as a directory. For example, if /mnt/home is a symlink, then this:

find /mnt/home

is not the same as:

find /mnt/home/

It is a good idea to always have a trailing slash.