Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:54:26 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Matt Tagg <wamatt@gmail.com> Subject: Re: find with -delete option on absolute paths Message-ID: <8170e39ad9c9cbecbc80406d3569dbea@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <244af0804267e6eaf7ddd43ffc7dd6e8@ultimatedns.net> References: <CAOW4NdCmjqyhXzW3PmTMvOsckZL2jnJuVc7vx8Mk5=gVd4AwjQ@mail.gmail.com>, <244af0804267e6eaf7ddd43ffc7dd6e8@ultimatedns.net>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 21:44:57 -0700 "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 20:31:52 -0700 Matt Tagg <wamatt@gmail.com> wrote
>
> > Hey BSD folks
> >
> > I believe this was discussed previously (2013), though I could not
> > find a resolution.
> >
> > To recap, suppose we try deleting files on an absolute path:
> >
> > matt@mtbook:/% find /tmp/foo/* -delete
> > find: -delete: /tmp/foo/bar.txt: relative path potentially not safe
> >
> > As you can see it gives an error and quits. However if we instead try this:
> >
> > matt@mtbook:/% gfind /tmp/foo/* -delete
> >
> > GNU Find throws no error and works as expected ('bar.txt is deleted')
> >
> > So as an end user, I find this rather confusing. How can I get the
> > same behavior with BSD Find out of the box?
Apologies. I was a bit distracted when I responded. I should have
waited.
What you are probably looking for is something like:
find /tmp/foo/ -type f -delete
Sorry.
--Chris
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> --Chris
> >
> > Thanks
> > - m
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