find with -delete option on absolute paths
Matt Tagg
wamatt at gmail.com
Wed Mar 11 03:32:34 UTC 2015
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 at 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 at 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?
Thanks
- m
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