On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 11:15:39PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > From: "Ted Unangst" <t...@tedunangst.com>
> > Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:39:48 -0500
> >
> > I copied this straight from freebsd. Not fixed, but feel free to correct as
> > desired.
> >
> > This adds a third example showing -delete, mentioning that it's not
> > standard,
> > but also hinting that it may work better than "rm -r" when you want to
> > delete
> > directories.
>
> I really think we should not encourage unportable code like that by
> giving an example in our manual page.
>
> I'm even tempted to say that you should leave the "-exec rm {} \;"
> example alone. The + here only works because rm(1) accepts multiple
> file arguments.
Huh ? of course rm accepts multiple file arguments. All "good" unix commands
accept multiple file arguments, fortunately. That's what makes +exec (or
xargs for that matter) work.
