Version 1.1

• Implemented some primaries from NetBSD find:
  • -exit [STATUS] (like -quit, but with an optional explicit exit status)
  • -printx (escape special characters for xargs)
  • -rm (alias for -delete)
• Warn if -prune will have no effect due to -depth
• Handle y/n prompts according to the user's locale
• Prompt the user to correct typos without having to re-run bfs
• Fixed handling of paths longer than PATH_MAX
• Fixed spurious "Inappropriate ioctl for device" errors when redirecting -exec ... + output
• Fixed the handling of paths that treat a file as a directory (e.g. a/b/c where a/b is a regular file)
• Fixed an expression optimizer bug that broke command lines like bfs -name '*' -o -print

Version 1.0.2

Bugfix release.

• Fixed handling of \0 inside -printf format strings
• Fixed -perm interpretation of permcopy actions (e.g. u=rw,g=r)

Version 1.0.1

Bugfix release.

• Portability fixes that mostly affect GNU Hurd
• Implemented -D exec
• Made -quit not disable the implicit -print

Version 1.0

This is the first release of bfs with support for all of GNU find's primitives.

Changes since 0.96:

• Implemented -fstype
• Implemented -exec/-execdir ... +
• Implemented BSD's -X
• Fixed the tests under Bash 3 (mostly for macOS)
• Some minor optimizations and fixes

Version 0.96

73/76 GNU find features supported.

• Implemented -nouser and -nogroup
• Implemented -printf and -fprintf
• Implemented -ls and -fls
• Implemented -type with multiple types at once (e.g. -type f,d,l)
• Fixed 32-bit builds
• Fixed -lname on "symlinks" in Linux /proc
• Fixed -quit to take effect as soon as it's reached
• Stopped redirecting standard input from /dev/null for -ok and -okdir, as that violates POSIX
• Many test suite improvements

Version 0.88

67/76 GNU find features supported.

• Fixed the build on macOS, and some other UNIXes
• Implemented -regex, -iregex, -regextype, and BSD's -E
• Implemented -x (same as -mount/-xdev) from BSD
• Implemented -mnewer (same as -newer) from BSD
• Implemented -depth N from BSD
• Implemented -sparse from FreeBSD
• Implemented the T and P suffices for -size, for BSD compatibility
• Added support for -gid NAME and -uid NAME as in BSD

Version 0.84.1

Bugfix release.

• Fixed #7 again
• Like GNU find, don't print warnings by default if standard input is not a terminal
• Redirect standard input from /dev/null for -ok and -okdir
• Skip . when -delete'ing
• Fixed -execdir when the root path has no slashes
• Fixed -execdir in /
• Support -perm +MODE for symbolic modes
• Fixed the build on FreeBSD

Version 0.84

64/76 GNU find features supported.

• Spelling suggestion improvements
• Handle --
• (Untested) support for exotic file types like doors, ports, and whiteouts
• Improved robustness in the face of closed std{in,out,err}
• Fixed the build on macOS
• Implement -ignore_readdir_race, -noignore_readdir_race
• Implement -perm

0.82

62/76 GNU find features supported.

• Rework optimization levels
  • -O1
    • Simple boolean simplification
  • -O2
    • Purity-based optimizations, allowing side-effect-free tests like -name or -type to be moved or removed
  • -O3 (default):
    • Re-order tests to reduce the expected cost (TODO)
  • -O4
    • Aggressive optimizations that may have surprising effects on warning/error messages and runtime, but should not otherwise affect the results
  • -Ofast:
    • Always the highest level, currently the same as -O4
• Color files with multiple hard links correctly
• Treat -, ), and , as paths when required to by POSIX
  • ) and , are only supported before the expression begins
• Implement -D opt
• Implement -D rates
• Implement -fprint
• Implement -fprint0
• Implement BSD's -f
• Suggest fixes for typo'd arguments

0.79

• Remove an errant debug printf() from -used
• Implement the {} ; variants of -exec, -execdir, -ok, and -okdir