Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/find
To: SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 02/08/2007 09:40:09
SODA Noriyuki <soda@sra.co.jp> writes:
>> Anyway, this is Unix -- we don't "del file" or "delete file", we
>> "rm file"...
>
> That's exactly why I don't prefer "-rm" for this option.
> If it's "-rm", "find /usr/src -rm" should work.

Then perhaps we should make it work, and rename "delete" to something
like "saferm" or some such. "-delete" sounds, on its face, like
something that removes files, not something that "safely removes only
certain files".

Perry