hello, first of thanks all for the hard work:
get the point, left to right processing of arguments, okay but, when someone reads or writes this one-liner:
find . -delete -name "*f25020672.avi*" nobody would have guessed that it will delete everything (send this one liner to 10x friends and ask them (without trying it out! so maybe in person or in a videocall) what this one-liner will do... will bet ahttps://ko-fi.com/ that 90% will say "it will delete this file f25020672.avi and all files that are similar like ABCf25020672.aviABC cu On 1/31/22 22:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
find(1) was asked to - start a search in the current directory ".", - and to delete all files and directories (implicitly using -depth), - and then to apply the filter for -name '*.avi'. As the whole command line has already an action (-delete), find does not implicitly add the default action (-print), and therefore nothing happens after -name.
