uutils/findutils

use uutils-args or clap for argument management

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#113 opened on Sep 7, 2021

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good first issue

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findutils is doing way too many argument management by hand. It should be delegate to clap for example https://github.com/uutils/findutils/blob/ac576f50b0acedf59a7d64144787fa3129c635bd/src/find/mod.rs#L89-L92 https://github.com/uutils/findutils/blob/ac576f50b0acedf59a7d64144787fa3129c635bd/src/find/mod.rs#L167-L175 https://github.com/uutils/findutils/blob/ac576f50b0acedf59a7d64144787fa3129c635bd/src/find/mod.rs#L205-L207 https://github.com/uutils/findutils/blob/ac576f50b0acedf59a7d64144787fa3129c635bd/src/find/matchers/mod.rs#L205-L212

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Research direction
Explore the current manual argument handling in findutils/src/find/mod.rs and identify where to introduce clap. Look at the clap documentation for struct based argument parsing, and migrate the existing argument definitions to use clap's builder or derive API.
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rust
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cli
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Rust
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50