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Subject: Re: find with -delete option on absolute paths
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
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On 12 Mar 2015, at 15:12, Matt Tagg <wamatt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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

You probably should ask on an OS X mailing list.

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Rui Paulo