On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 08:53:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:21:36PM +0200, Tom Albers wrote:
> >
> > My co-worker used it to store some old fonts in there. I do not know why,
> > but
> > it gave serious trouble upgrading debian ;-)
> >
> > > the find command returns the full path
> > > to each file it finds: there's no way that a path anchored at the root
> > > directory is going to begin with a -, it will always begin with a slash.
> > > What's the actual path of the file causing problems for you, and what is
> > > the error you get?
>
> > testcase:
> > cd /tmp
> > mkdir -- "- oldones -"
> > cd -- -\ oldones\ -/
> > touch temp
> > cd ..
>
> > command: "find . -name temp | xargs rm -f" will result in an error that
> > this
> > option is not supported by rm. "find . -name temp | xargs rm -f --" works
> > fine.
>
> Well, all you've done in this case is hidden the error; the rm -f *still*
> doesn't work correctly, because the paths being passed to rm -f are now
> "./-", "oldones", and "-/temp", none of which are valid paths. I don't
> think this workaround is a good idea; it's *only* needed in cases where you
> have a directory name with a space in it followed by a dash, and in such a
> case it will never result in successful deletion of the directory. You
> might as well just stick "|| true" on the end of the line for all the
> difference it makes.
>
> > I agree it will not happen for many people, but if it happens, you really
> > don't know how to solve it, unless you debug the postinstall script. It is
> > not theoretical, I ran into it yesterday and took me quite a bit to find
> > the
> > problem ;-)
>
> Yeah, in such an edge case I'd rather see the admin deal with it manually
> rather than hiding the problem. It was the admin's bright idea to create
> this directory name, he should be bright enough to figure out how to fix it
> ;)
Why not use find -print0 | xargs -0 as in
find /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d -name fonts.cache-1 -print0 \
| xargs -0 rm -f
Cheers,
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