Hello,
updating the manpage sounds good, but maybe find also needs an
update/patch, as it (imho) does not work correctly (with the find .
-delete) as intended?
# warning! this can ruin one's day
mkdir temp
cd temp
touch 1 2 3 f25020672.avi
# only finds that file
find . -name "*f25020672.avi
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
no worries, this will be the last feedback to this problem-challenge.
Beyond clearly documenting how to use the tool (which I think we do)
I'm not sure what to do about the risk that admin4 is pointing out.
but the UNIX philosophy is to simplify, simplify, simplify,and pretty
much follow
me so lucky: it's only 603283 jpgs to sort manually...
nah my mistake now got it:
simplify in this context means: find should get rid of the -delete
("simplify")
because, (UNIX Philosophy)
* *Write programs that do one thing and do it well.*
* *Write programs to work together.*
* *Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a univer
