Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:09:21 -0700 From: "Chris H" <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> To: Matt Tagg <wamatt@gmail.com>, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find with -delete option on absolute paths Message-ID: <3b90cd87b96ea11ed03d5125a897949e@ultimatedns.net> In-Reply-To: <201503121754.t2CHscnQ092956@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201503121754.t2CHscnQ092956@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:54:38 +0100 "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote
> Matt Tagg 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?
>
> Off on a tangent:
> Last millenia (1987 :-) when I was using find & needed an rm to reduce
> near duplicate trees on DOS & Unix, I wrote my own C
> http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/bsd/jhs/bin/public/cmpd/
> I've never since worried about getting syntax of test conditions
> wrong & deleting good stuff by mistake.
Thanks for sharing that, Julian. :-)
I don't see an entry for this in the ports tree. :-/
Thanks, again.
--Chris
>
> Cheers,
> Julian
> --
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