Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

2022-01-31 Thread admin4
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

Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

2022-02-01 Thread admin4
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

Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

2022-02-02 Thread admin4
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

Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

2022-02-02 Thread admin4
me so lucky: it's only 603283 jpgs to sort manually...

Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

2022-02-02 Thread admin4
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