On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 11:00:57AM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> The point of that example is to show how to safely use xargs. Since
> find now has its own built-in xargs support perhaps we should adapt
> the example to use that instead.
As claudio and tb already pointed out, that is indeed a valid point.
> We can also list the -delete method as an alternative. E.g.
I concur. We can at least showcase the "batching" version that passes
multiple arguments to rm(1) while also mentioning `-delete'.
Both find(1)'s `-print0' and xarg(1)'s `-0' reference each other, I'd
say that is enough together with find(1)'s CAVEATS such that
`find -print0 | xargs -0' does not have to me shown in EXAMPLES again.
How about that?
Index: find.1
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/find/find.1,v
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diff -u -p -r1.96 find.1
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+++ find.1 22 Aug 2019 17:16:32 -0000
@@ -581,9 +581,9 @@ ending in a dot and single digit, but sk
Find and remove all *.jpg and *.gif files under the current working
directory:
.Pp
-.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -exec rm {} \e;"
+.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -exec rm {} +"
or
-.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -print0 | xargs -0r rm"
+.Dl "$ find . \e( -name \e*.jpg -o -name \e*.gif \e) -delete"
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chflags 1 ,
.Xr chmod 1 ,
