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Diffstat (limited to 'find/find.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | find/find.1 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/find/find.1 b/find/find.1 index 004e9b23..d5233def 100644 --- a/find/find.1 +++ b/find/find.1 @@ -539,8 +539,12 @@ The starting points in \fIfile\fR have to be separated by ASCII NUL characters. Two consecutive NUL characters, i.e., a starting point with a Zero-length file name is not allowed and will lead to an error diagnostic followed by a non-Zero exit code later. -The given \fIfile\fR has to contain at least one starting point, -i.e., an empty input file will be diagnosed as well. + +In the case the given \fIfile\fR is empty, \fBfind\fR does not process any +starting point and therefore will exit immediately after parsing the program +arguments. +This is unlike the standard invocation where \fBfind\fR assumes the current +directory as starting point if no path argument is passed. The processing of the starting points is otherwise as usual, e.g. .B find |