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authoreadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>2012-06-02 03:13:27 +0000
committereadler <eadler@FreeBSD.org>2012-06-02 03:13:27 +0000
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Document the limitations of the -delete primary
PR: bin/166554 Submitted by: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> Discussed with: jilles Approved by: bcr MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/usr.bin/find/find.1 b/usr.bin/find/find.1
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@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 28, 2011
+.Dd May 06, 2012
.Dt FIND 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -319,6 +319,9 @@ character in its pathname relative to
.Dq Pa \&.
for security reasons.
Depth-first traversal processing is implied by this option.
+The
+.Ic -delete
+primary will fail to delete a directory if it is not empty.
Following symlinks is incompatible with this option.
.It Ic -depth
Always true;
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