-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 7/23/2008 6:22 AM: | | You are correct about the behavior, but just because it is undesirable | doesn't mean it is a bug. | | | | | I shudder to think of the disastrous consequences this has had. | | We feel your pain.
By the way, if you don't mind using GNU extensions, then you can already use findutils to accomplish this task: # depth first deletion of only writable files in recursively from .; # read-only files are left untouched. Additional filters can be added # before the -delete to further restrict which files are deleted find -depth -perm /w -delete - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiHJFEACgkQ84KuGfSFAYArcwCgjaXztEOBJY8yP89dJomgcm91 otIAn1+jSQtp4ON2s7aTSWpFxf8i/eCr =PHNv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
