On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:37:28PM +0200, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> We support -delete since the following and I see no reason to prefer the
> current examples for the very same reasons tedu already outlined:
>
> find.c revision 1.21
> date: 2017/01/03 21:31:16; author: tedu; state: Exp; lines: +10 -4;
> add -delete option which can simplify the common case of wanting to
> delete
> lots of files without the arcane -exec or error prone xargs.
> code from freebsd.
> ok millert
>
> CAVEATS even goes into detail wrt. removing special files, so no
> information seems to be lost with this diff.
>
> Feedback? OK?
You may want to single quote the patterns as '*.jpg' and '*.gif' as is
done a few lines further up in the manual. Also, since the text says
"files" (assuming this means "regular files"), one may want to add -type f
to the tests in the command.
Regards,
>
> Index: find.1
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
> retrieving revision 1.96
> diff -u -p -r1.96 find.1
> --- find.1 6 Dec 2018 17:45:14 -0000 1.96
> +++ find.1 22 Aug 2019 10:31:14 -0000
> @@ -581,9 +581,7 @@ ending in a dot and single digit, but sk
> Find and remove all *.jpg and *.gif files under the current working
> directory:
> .Pp
> -.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -exec rm {} \e;"
> -or
> -.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -print0 | xargs -0r rm"
> +.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -delete"
> .Sh SEE ALSO
> .Xr chflags 1 ,
> .Xr chmod 1 ,
