> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Blake
> > It is an unusual command that requires switches to appear in a
> > specific order, especially when the switches are not directly
> > dependent on each other.
>
> The upcoming findutils-4.2.25-1 (whenever upstream releases
> 4.2.25) better documents this. -i is being deprecated in
> favor of POSIX -I, which requires an argument, whereas the
> non-standard -i treated its argument as optional. So what
> may be happening (although you'd actually have to debug to
> see for sure) is that -i -n treats -n as the string to
> replace, instead of the default {}. But that sounds odd, and
> it may be an upstream bug; I'll investigate further.
>
> --
> Eric Blake
Thanks, Eric. That is very cool of you to check.
FYI: I had trouble with -I, and with --string,
and even trying to specify the replacement string
using -i, although I didn't exercise those other
options as carefully as the "-i" and default {}.
--
Herb Martin
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