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21st century grep / find / ack / ag / rg on steroids
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Parent directory (non-)findings #44

Closed antononcube closed 3 months ago

antononcube commented 1 year ago

I expect this command to find files in the parent directory (at this point, it lists files in the current directory that have names that include ".."): 

rak --find ..

I expect this command to give directories in the parent directory (at this point, gives nothing):

 rak --find --dir ..

For comparison, this works as expected: 

rak --find --dir .
lizmat commented 3 months ago

The first positional argument is always taken as the pattern to search for. And if no path is specified, the current directory will be assumed.

So rak --find .. will search for files with .. in their paths.

What you probably wanted is rak --find --paths=..

Closing as this is a bit of a WAT, but that's always the case with a lot of other DWIMs.