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From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru>
To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
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Subject: Re: find -L . -type l -delete
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:38:51PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> Am I stupid or is our 'find' is seriously broken in one subtle feature?
> 
> $ find -L . -type l
> find all broken symlinks (target doesn't exists)
> 
> $ find -L . -type l -delete
> removes all symlinks!!!

Yes.

> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64

This is pretty old and known problem:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/90687

Eugene Grosbein