> With all other tools I use, I'm used to indifference of the order of the > arguments. In find's case, placing -delete before -iname happily deletes > every file and folder below the current directory. Without warning or > confirmation. Even if this is not a bug, this clearly does not follow the > "Do What I Mean" principle.
Yes. Perhaps an action as first argument should be treated specially. > I would like to know if this can be submitted as a bug. And if not, why this > behavior was chosen. Well, find *is* indifferent to the order -- of "expressions". An expression, however, may consist of more than one command-line argument, the order of which does matter. There's not really a way to change this globally, more so if the traditional behaviour is not to be broken. It just has to happen that way. Leslie
