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Nov 19, 2024 at 13:54 comment added Kusalananda Addendum: In the "naked find" case (no arguments), the dot It was provided by find as the search path since GNU find adds it as the default search path if the user does not specify a search path.
Nov 19, 2024 at 13:39 history edited sourcejedi CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nov 19, 2024 at 9:45 comment added Kusalananda @jarno "Each path operand shall be evaluated unaltered as it was provided", and the dot was provided by the user as the search path, therefore it needs to be evaluated. However, ./. is not evaluated.
Jun 6, 2020 at 10:41 comment added jarno Well, find shows . like shown in the question.
Dec 31, 2019 at 12:07 vote accept Justchoose1
Dec 31, 2019 at 11:59 history edited sourcejedi CC BY-SA 4.0
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Dec 31, 2019 at 11:47 history answered sourcejedi CC BY-SA 4.0