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Subject: Re: find with -delete option on absolute paths
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On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> wrote:
> You can get the same behaviour by upgrading to FreeBSD 10 or newer.
>
> Before FreeBSD 10.0, find -delete did not allow deleting files given as
> arguments. This was because of an incorrect check and was fixed in
> SVN r253886.

Interesting, hope it makes it into Darwin 15