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Re: find: ... -ok rmdir ... No such file or directory
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積丹尼 Dan Jacobson |
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Re: find: ... -ok rmdir ... No such file or directory |
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Sun, 28 Jul 2019 19:19:07 +0800 |
BV> find does not have an idea what rmdir does, and that its logic requires
BV> depth-first search. Use -depth:
All I know is you need to document "in this case, find, for some reason,
needs to needlessly check the directory is still there after the command
it invokes exits, therefore one needs to add -depth" (I don't recall
Unix find(1) had such weird habits.)
Anyway, this "quirk" is not in the INFO manual.