svn commit: r197363 - head/usr.bin/find

Jilles Tjoelker jilles at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 20 16:47:57 UTC 2009


Author: jilles
Date: Sun Sep 20 16:47:56 2009
New Revision: 197363
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197363

Log:
  Update find(1) man page for -L/-delete interaction.
  
  It is a bit unfortunate that the example to delete broken symlinks now uses
  rm(1), but allowing this with -delete would require fixing fts(3) to not
  imply FTS_NOCHDIR if FTS_LOGICAL is given (or hacks in the -delete option).
  
  PR:		bin/90687
  MFC after:	2 weeks

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/find/find.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/find/find.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/find/find.1	Sun Sep 20 15:47:31 2009	(r197362)
+++ head/usr.bin/find/find.1	Sun Sep 20 16:47:56 2009	(r197363)
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ character in its pathname relative to
 .Dq Pa \&.
 for security reasons.
 Depth-first traversal processing is implied by this option.
+Following symlinks is incompatible with this option.
 .It Ic -depth
 Always true;
 same as the
@@ -920,7 +921,7 @@ recent than the current time minus one m
 Use the
 .Xr echo 1
 command to print out a list of all the files.
-.It Li "find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -delete"
+.It Li "find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} +"
 Delete all broken symbolic links in
 .Pa /usr/ports/packages .
 .It Li "find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print"


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