Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:37:58 -0500 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/90687: [patch] side effect of -delete option of find(1) Message-ID: <20051220233758.GC21167@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <200512202330.jBKNUAna040615@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200512202330.jBKNUAna040615@freefall.freebsd.org>
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in message <200512202330.jBKNUAna040615@freefall.freebsd.org>, wrote Parv thusly... > > The following reply was made to PR bin/90687; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Parv <parv@pair.com> > To: Anatoli Klassen <anatoli@aksoft.net> > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: bin/90687: [patch] side effect of -delete option of find(1) > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:29:42 -0500 > > in message <20051220145417.1B52D1DA14@26th.net>, > wrote Anatoli Klassen thusly... > > > > > > >Environment: > > System: FreeBSD mercury.26th.net 5.4-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #0: Wed Jul 27 12:58:07 CEST 2005 root@mercury.26th.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MERCURY i386 > > > > >Description: > > If -delete option is used it cancel -L option silently. So find does > > something different as it does with just -print option. The result could be > > deleting of all symbolic links instead of broken ones only even if user has > > already validated this with previous -print run. > > > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Create a file, symbolic link to it and a broken symbolic link: > > touch a && ln -s a b && ln -s c d > > > > Now detect all broken links: > > find -L . -type l > > - works fine, shows that "d" is broken. > > > > Then try to delete the broken links > > find -L . -type l -delete > > - all links are deleted, not only broken ones. ... > Refer to "-L" option description ... Argh, never mind. After sending my previous message, I realized that problem was not misunderstanding of "-L" option. And yes, i did observe the behaviour as described above. Sorry Anatoli K, the bug database, and rest of bug monitoring people. - Parv --
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