[bug #62227] Incorrect warning for -name /

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                 Summary: Incorrect warning for -name /
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 28 Mar 2022 06:37:13 AM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.9.0
         Discussion Lock: Any
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:


$ find / -prune -name /
find/find: warning: ‘-name’ matches against basenames only, but the given
pattern contains a directory separator (‘/’), thus the expression will
evaluate to false all the time.  Did you mean ‘-wholename’?
/


The warning says -name / will evaluate to false all the time, but as the test
demonstrates by printing /, in this case it is not correct. The warning makes
sense for -name options where the argument to -name is multiple characters and
one of them is /, but when the full argument is /, there should probably be no
warning at all, or if you do feel it should still warn, the warning text
should be changed to something that is more accurate.




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