0.10.0

📦 Findutils 0.10.0 Release

Findutils 0.10.0 is a GNU-compatibility and robustness release. It sharpens several find behaviors that silently differed from GNU (-printf %T+ formatting, -newerXY predicate validation, --files0-from input validation), fixes an xargs bug where the default command line size could make execvp() fail with E2BIG, improves xargs length accounting on Windows, and continues the campaign of turning panics on malformed input into proper error messages.

Five people made their first contribution to findutils in this cycle: @SAY-5, @lhecker, @l46983284-cpu, @wtcpython and @aki-kong.

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GNU Test Suite Compatibility

Compatibility is tracked per individual test (PASS/FAIL/SKIP by test name). 0.10.0 stands at:

Result	find (GNU suite)	bfs suite
Pass	417	267
Fail	77	41
Skip	1	6
Total	495	314

Compared to 0.9.1, one more GNU test passes (417 vs 416). The bfs suite gained a test upstream (314 vs 313) which findutils does not pass yet, so the pass count is unchanged.

For more details, visit https://github.com/uutils/findutils-tracking/.

Highlights

GNU compatibility fixes

• find -printf: print a fixed-width fraction for %T+ — chrono's %.f drops the fraction (and the leading dot) when the sub-second part is zero, while GNU always prints a dot followed by ten fractional digits, by @sylvestre in #792
• find: reject invalid -newerXY predicates like GNU — the parser used an unanchored regex, so tokens such as -neweraBcmty were accepted as a truncated -neweraB, by @l46983284-cpu in #784
• find: reject invalid UTF-8 in --files0-from by @wtcpython in #798
• xargs: cap the default command line size at 128 KiB — sizing command lines up to ARG_MAX made execvp() fail with E2BIG, since the kernel also charges the argv/envp pointer arrays against the limit. An explicit -s may still raise the limit, as with GNU. By @sylvestre in #791
• xargs: account for quoting on Windows when computing length limits by @lhecker in #788

Robustness — errors instead of panics

• find: report an unparsable -newerXt year instead of panicking by @leeewee in #762
• locate: report write errors instead of panicking by @SAY-5 in #785
• locate: ignore an unrepresentable --max-database-age instead of panicking by @leeewee in #768
• find: skip broken pipe errors in wasm executions by @aki-kong in #802

Error messages

• find: avoid the duplicated find: find: prefix in two error messages by @cakebaker in #774

Project & CI

• clippy: fix warnings (byte_char_slices, useless_borrows_in_formatting, question_mark, manual_assert_eq) by @cakebaker in #755
• Release 0.10.0 by @sylvestre in #804

Dependencies

Dependency and GitHub Action bumps via Dependabot and manual refreshes by @cakebaker: anyhow (1.0.102 → 1.0.103, #751), crossbeam-epoch (0.9.18 → 0.9.20, #754), clap (4.6.1 → 4.6.4, #763/#787/#790), regex (1.12.4 → 1.13.1, #765), ctor (1.0.7 → 1.0.12, #752/#764/#789/#796/#800), thiserror (2.0.18 → 2.0.19, #786), and CodSpeedHQ/action (4 → 5.0.1, #799/#803).

New Contributors

• @SAY-5 made their first contribution in #785
• @lhecker made their first contribution in #788
• @l46983284-cpu made their first contribution in #784
• @wtcpython made their first contribution in #798
• @aki-kong made their first contribution in #802

Full Changelog: 0.9.1...0.10.0

Install findutils 0.10.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/uutils/findutils/releases/download/0.10.0/findutils-installer.sh | sh

Download findutils 0.10.0

File	Platform	Checksum
findutils-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Apple Silicon macOS	checksum
findutils-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz	Intel macOS	checksum
findutils-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip	x64 Windows	checksum
findutils-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz	x64 Linux (glibc)	checksum
findutils-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	x64 Linux (static musl)	checksum
findutils-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz	ARM64 Linux (static musl)	checksum