On 26 April 2013 18:34, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013/04/26 14:30, Eitan Adler wrote: >> The attached patch adds an "x" option to rm(1) to avoid cross >> filesystem boundaries. > > Isn't it better to just use find(1)'s -x option for this? It would be silly > to add an option like this to all the places where it might be useful (besides > rm this type of operation is definitely useful for chmod and chown, and I'm > sure there are others..)
The entirety of rm's functionality can be replicated with find(1). We had a similar conversion on -hackers: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Some-improvements-to-rm-1-td5806672.html#none -- Eitan Adler
