Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:31:52 -0700 From: Matt Tagg <wamatt@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: find with -delete option on absolute paths Message-ID: <CAOW4NdCmjqyhXzW3PmTMvOsckZL2jnJuVc7vx8Mk5=gVd4AwjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey BSD folks
I believe this was discussed previously (2013), though I could not
find a resolution.
To recap, suppose we try deleting files on an absolute path:
matt@mtbook:/% find /tmp/foo/* -delete
find: -delete: /tmp/foo/bar.txt: relative path potentially not safe
As you can see it gives an error and quits. However if we instead try this:
matt@mtbook:/% gfind /tmp/foo/* -delete
GNU Find throws no error and works as expected ('bar.txt is deleted')
So as an end user, I find this rather confusing. How can I get the
same behavior with BSD Find out of the box?
Thanks
- m
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