From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 22 9:41:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 02ECF37B4C5 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:41:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23128 invoked by uid 3001); 22 Nov 2000 17:41:11 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 22 Nov 2000 17:41:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 35847 invoked by uid 1001); 22 Nov 2000 17:41:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:41:11 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: Brian Reichert , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find, -delete, and relative paths Message-ID: <20001122124111.A35725@numachi.com> References: <20001120161557.R11172@numachi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:08:56PM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:08:56PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 20-Nov-00 Brian Reichert wrote: > > I didn't find anything after an admittedly quick look intp PRs and the mail > > list archives: > > > > Under FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE, we are running a simple log file scrubber: > > > > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp \! -ctime 1 -delete > > > > I pointedly am using an absolute path, yes I get this warning repeatedly: > > > > find: -delete: /usr/local/logs/lsp: relative path potentially not safe > > > > How can I suppress this warning? Is it a bug in find, or did I > > misunderstand the manpage? > > I don't know why, but I think find prints those messages when you attempt to delete > a directory. > > If you do -> > 15 3 * * * find /usr/local/logs/lsp -type f -a \! -ctime 1 -delete > > it should work.. To wrap up, the above suggestion does shush up 'find' WRT absolute vs. realtive pathnames, at least in my case... > --- > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "The nice thing about standards is that there > are so many of them to choose from." > -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message