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

Description

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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rust
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clitooling
Issue type
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1-2 days
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Rust programmingclap library basics
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70
Research direction
Examine the argument parsing in src/find/mod.rs lines 89-92, 167-175, 205-207 and src/find/matchers/mod.rs lines 205-212. Understand existing manual parsing and plan replacement with clap. Check comments for any design decisions.