On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 05:32:15AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> We can use find's built-in -delete primary to remove old /tmp files
> and directories. This is somewhat less error-prone than execing
> rm or rmdir.
>
OK denis@
> - todd
>
> Index: etc/daily
> ==
We can use find's built-in -delete primary to remove old /tmp files
and directories. This is somewhat less error-prone than execing
rm or rmdir.
- todd
Index: etc/daily
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"Ted Unangst" wrote:
> This option is not posix (not like that's stopped find accumulating a
> dozen extensions), but it is in gnu and freebsd (for 20 years). it's
> also somewhat popular among sysadmins and blogs, etc. and perhaps most
> importantly, it nicely solves one of the more troublesome
> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 13:15:05 +
> From: Stuart Henderson
>
> On 2017/01/07 11:32, Marc Espie wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > > From: "Ted Unangst"
> > > > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
> > > >
> > > > I copied this straight from fre
On 2017/01/07 11:32, Marc Espie wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > From: "Ted Unangst"
> > > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
> > >
> > > I copied this straight from freebsd. Not fixed, but feel free to correct
> > > as
> > > desired.
> > >
> > >
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: "Ted Unangst"
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
> >
> > I copied this straight from freebsd. Not fixed, but feel free to correct as
> > desired.
> >
> > This adds a third example showing -delete, mentioning that it'
Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I really think we should not encourage unportable code like that by
> giving an example in our manual page.
That's fair.
> I'm even tempted to say that you should leave the "-exec rm {} \;"
> example alone. The + here only works because rm(1) accepts multiple
> file argume
>> From: "Ted Unangst"
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
>>
>> I copied this straight from freebsd. Not fixed, but feel free to correct as
>> desired.
>>
>> This adds a third example showing -delete, mentioning that it's not standard,
>> but also hinting that it may work better than "rm -
> From: "Ted Unangst"
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
>
> I copied this straight from freebsd. Not fixed, but feel free to correct as
> desired.
>
> This adds a third example showing -delete, mentioning that it's not standard,
> but also hinting that it may work better than "rm -r" when
Jason McIntyre wrote:
> no opinion on the addition, but if there is a better way to write the
> examples that are there, i think you should take the time to do so. i'd
> also slightly prefer we show the more traditional way to do it, though i
> appreciate that might not make a ton of sense for find
OK millert@ for the code. I'll defer to jmc@ on the man page bits.
- todd
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 12:15:02AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> This option is not posix (not like that's stopped find accumulating a dozen
> extensions), but it is in gnu and freebsd (for 20 years). it's also somewhat
> popular among sysadmins and blogs, etc. and perhaps most importantly, it
> nice
This option is not posix (not like that's stopped find accumulating a dozen
extensions), but it is in gnu and freebsd (for 20 years). it's also somewhat
popular among sysadmins and blogs, etc. and perhaps most importantly, it
nicely solves one of the more troublesome caveats of find (which the man
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