Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:45:56 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org Subject: Re: Problem with find -prune... Message-ID: <20080403124556.7e44c970@mbook-fbsd> In-Reply-To: <200804031559.m33FxKDr019153@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <20080324011708.107ec3cb@bhuda.mired.org> <200804031559.m33FxKDr019153@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 17:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Mike Meyer <> wrote:
> > find -prune seems to not quite do what it says. At least, when delete
> > is used. Here's an example tree (on 7.0-RELEASE, amd64 build):
> It behaves exactly as documented. I'll try to explain.
I think you did an excellent job. Thank you.
> >
> > bhuda% find /tmp/x -prune -o -delete
> > find: /tmp/x/y: Permission denied
> >
> > Why on earth (or off it) is find trying to look at /tmp/x? Am I
> > correct in assuming that this is a bug?
>
> The -delete primary implicitly assumes depth-first
> traversal (i.e. the -d option), because that's the
> only way you can delete a whole directory tree.
>
> However, when depth-first traversal is in effect,
> the -prune primary doesn't have any effect (for
> obvious reasons). It's documented in the manpage.
>
> In other words, the primaries -prune and -delete
> are mutual exclusive. It could be argued whether
> find(1) should print a warning in that case.
It might be better documented, also.
So the bug that I'm *really* trying to scratch is in
/etc/periodic/daily/100.clean-disks:
rc=$(find / \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype rdonly \) -a -prune -o \
\( $args \) -atime +$daily_clean_disks_days -delete $print |
tee /dev/stderr | wc -l)
where it's using -prune and -delete in the same call to find.
So I'll see if I can patch this, and file *that* bug report.
Thanks again,
<mike
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