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Doc bugs in find.info, node "Cleaning Up"
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Doc bugs in find.info, node "Cleaning Up" |
Date: |
Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:53:40 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
Hello,
the @node Cleaning Up contains the following parahtaph:
---snip---
If your @code{find} command removes directories, you may find that
you get a spurious error message when @code{find} tries to recurse
into a directory that has now been removed. Using the @samp{-depth}
option will normally resolve this problem.
---snip---
This paragraph is immediately follows two examples, both using -depth
and -delete. The "spurious error messages" cannot happen with those
commands; I suggest to move the paragraph up, just after the first
example in the node; that example does not use -delete.
Moreover, the second example in the node is introduced as "safer"; I
cannot see why it is safer, you should perhaps expand on that aspect.
(Actually, I'd say that -delete is a dangerous feature compared to
"-print0|xargs -0", because of the trap of implied -depth.)
And that second example uses the -depth option in the middle of the
expression; it should be moved next to the path list.
Attached please find a quick first approximation of a patch.
find-doc-delete.patch
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