From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 16 17:24:37 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA7E106564A for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+X4=d5d0fb9e@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net (mxout-03.mxes.net [216.86.168.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FC38FC0C for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:24:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd06+X4=d5d0fb9e@mlists.homeunix.com) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com. (unknown [87.81.140.128]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 786FD23E498 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:24:32 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080716182432.714031f0@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <1216219136.81342.31.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> <20080716114210.59372334@ayiin> <1216189379.81342.23.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> <20080716150107.771de073@gumby.homeunix.com.> <1216219136.81342.31.camel@predator-ii.buffyverse> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: why is this script failing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:24:37 -0000 On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:08:56 +0930 Wayne Sierke wrote: > Except that the -delete primary of find is not the equivalent of rm > -vf, or even of just rm -f. Obviously, but the -vf options weren't in the original script, they were added as an illustration by an intermediate post.