On 2/2/22 18:28, admin4 wrote: > nah my mistake now got it: sorry for your loss, again.
> find . -name *.doc -exec rm -rf {} \; # does the same as find . -name > *.doc -delete These are also bad examples for find(1) invocations: please use proper quoting, and better get used to refine the search to limit the effect of the action to the files or file types you really want to operate on; here I'd always add '-type f'. Furthermore, when deleting with find(1), I always first test what would be deleted. The documentation has quite some examples and hints. > The manual page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page>, which really > used to be a manual /page/, is now a small volume, with a thousand options… This is a specialty of GNU findutils. Ideally and as the GNU guide recommends, the man page should really be very terse and all the details should go into the texinfo manual (where HTML and PDF formats get published as well). E.g. the coreutils generate the man pages from --help output with some very few additional information. But the findutils keep a lot of redundant information in both the man page and the texinfo manual for historic reasons. Unfortunately, this yields quite some maintenance overhead, and there were already discussions about how to solve this, but no-one has had the time to fix this yet. Contribution welcome. Have a nice day, Berny