Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44078 (project findutils):
My version is from last January: 4.4.2-7 in Ubuntu 14.04 which is still the
latest for the distro. I've had this issue for over a year, but now cannot
replicate it either. I didn't update findutils, but something had to have
changed. I checked
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #44221 (project findutils):
Considering...
find -type f -ls -a -mindepth 4 -delete
That's an odd example ... I'm really struggling to understand what possible
interpretation -mindepth could have here other than the one it has .. maybe
someone might want to list all file
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #44221 (project findutils):
That might be true in your simple case, but it does not hold in general. What
about the following command for instance?
find -type f -ls -a -mindepth 4 -delete
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44221 (project findutils):
Indeed, you do need to order options and non-options, but only because of this
spurious warning that is printed when you do not do so.
It looks like the warning is intended to cater for options which affect tests
after them, namely:
-foll