On 4/28/24 4:37 PM, Hazel Cooney wrote:
> To reproduce this bug, create a directory with some files in it. Then, go
> to the directory that contains the one you just made. Type ls new_directory
> | xargs realpath.
Using 'build-aux' for my directory instead of music_copy. We have this
for build-aux:
ls build-aux
announce-gen config.libpath depcomp ....
>From the 'realpath' info page we have:
By default, all but the last component of the specified files must
exist.
Then when we perform the 'ls build-aux | xargs realpath', we don't
change our current working directory. So that is why we get:
# Notice 'build-aux' is missing after gnulib.
$ ls build-aux | xargs realpath
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/announce-gen
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/ar-lib
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/bootstrap
There might be a better way to write it, but I would do this:
$ for file in build-aux/*; do echo $file; done | xargs realpath
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/build-aux/announce-gen
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/build-aux/ar-lib
/home/collin/.local/src/gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap
Since unlike 'ls' that loop does not remove the directory name:
$ for file in build-aux/*; do echo $file; done
build-aux/announce-gen
build-aux/ar-lib
build-aux/bootstrap
Does that explination help? Or I misunderstanding your issue?
Collin
