Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:17:26 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@kuzbass.ru> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find -L . -type l -delete Message-ID: <20081113141726.GA26583@svzserv.kemerovo.su> In-Reply-To: <491C2DEB.3010504@icyb.net.ua> References: <491C2DEB.3010504@icyb.net.ua>
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On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 03:38:51PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > Am I stupid or is our 'find' is seriously broken in one subtle feature? > > $ find -L . -type l > find all broken symlinks (target doesn't exists) > > $ find -L . -type l -delete > removes all symlinks!!! Yes. > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE amd64 This is pretty old and known problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/90687 Eugene Grosbein
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