Ultrix 4.1 (etc.) find "" -print not what you expect

Dave Sill de5 at ornl.gov
Mon Apr 15 23:12:48 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr14.195247.15341 at watcgl.waterloo.edu>, idallen at watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL]) writes:
>We all know that Unix treats the null pathname as equivalent to the
>current directory.  Try for example: ls ""

Says who?  I've never heard that one before.  Dot (".") is the
universally accepted handle for the current directory.

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