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Re: find and limits



On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 10:12 +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> I understand the need for correctness, but the limits for find ... -exec
> are really low, and it's quite unclear why things fail when they do.
> 
> cd /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/
> make patch
> mkdir -p work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF
> find /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work -name '*.ttf'  -exec /usr/bin/install -c -o fly -g users -m 644 "{}" /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF ";"
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Athene.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Parc Place.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Liverpool.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Los Altos.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Sanfrisco.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Torrance.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> install: /cvs/pkgsrc/fonts/urbanrenewal-ttf/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/share/fonts/X11/TTF/Valencia.ttf: write: Invalid argument
> 

Aren't those errors coming from install(1)?  Also, find with ';'
executes the command with one file at a time.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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