Does not run with -makeresultsfile option

[Lithi]

The -makeresultsfile does not work:

$ rdfind -n -makeresultsfile dir1 dir2
expected true or false, not "-makeresultsfile"

$ rdfind -n -makeresultsfile true dir1 dir2
expected true or false, not "-makeresultsfile"

$ rdfind -n "-makeresultsfile true" dir1 dir2
expected true or false, not "-makeresultsfile true"

This is unacceptable. Unix command-line programs typically take options denoted by -<option> or -<option> <option flag> however for the rdfind command the makeresultsfile option clearly does not work. If for some odd reason this is actually the intended behavior of then it should be indicated in the man page!

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04

$ rdfind --version
This is rdfind version 1.3.5

$ apt-cache policy rdfind
rdfind:
  Installed: 1.3.5-1
  Candidate: 1.3.5-1

[Paul Dreik (pauldreik)]

Hi, rdfind author here.
This is not related to -makeresultsfile, it is because -n expects a boolean argument. This is awkward, and related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754663.

This is fixed in the development version, not yet released. Given your first command, it gives the following response which hopefully had been of more help:
expected true or false after -n, not "-makeresultsfile"

I wish I had chosen that option not to take an argument in the first place, but I can not change it because I do not want to break backwards compatibility.

See https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind/issues/8

Paul

[Paul Dreik (pauldreik)]

This is fixed in 1.4.0-alpha0, feedback welcome.
https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind/releases/tag/releases%2F1.4.0-alpha0
Paul