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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | find/parser.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ GNU findutils NEWS - User visible changes. -*- outline -*- (allout) ** Bug Fixes #45585: unclear description of -newerXY in manual page. +#45505: give a more explicit error message when the argument to -regex + is not a valid regular expression. + #45090: oldfind incorrectly omits test/..test (or any file whose name begins with ..). diff --git a/find/parser.c b/find/parser.c index 0d19ba3c..b6d966aa 100644 --- a/find/parser.c +++ b/find/parser.c @@ -2115,7 +2115,8 @@ insert_regex (char **argv, error_message = re_compile_pattern (rx, strlen (rx), re); if (error_message) - error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "%s", error_message); + error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, "failed to compile regular expression '%s': %s", + rx, error_message); our_pred->est_success_rate = estimate_pattern_match_rate (rx, 1); return true; } |