Re: [bug #61774] Docs for find -delete out of sync

[admin4]

hello,

first of thanks all for the hard work:

get the point, left to right processing of arguments, okay but, when 
someone reads or writes this one-liner:

find . -delete -name "*f25020672.avi*"

nobody would have guessed that it will delete everything (send this one liner 
to 10x friends and ask them (without trying it out! so maybe in person or in a 
videocall) what this one-liner will do...

will bet ahttps://ko-fi.com/  that 90%  will say "it will delete this file

f25020672.avi and all files that are similar like ABCf25020672.aviABC

cu

On 1/31/22 22:35, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> find(1) was asked to
> - start a search in the current directory ".",
> - and to delete all files and directories (implicitly using -depth),
> - and then to apply the filter for -name '*.avi'.
> As the whole command line has already an action (-delete), find does not
> implicitly add the default action (-print), and therefore nothing happens
> after -name.