• @Damage@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    the -delete option in find goes AFTER the expression.

    find -delete [whatever] will delete EVERYTHING in the current directory and below, like rm -rf *

    • @Faresh@lemmy.ml
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      31 year ago

      Huh. I wonder if GNU find should be modified, so that -delete only works when explicitly given a directory.