[bug #63765] Unexpected deletions : find warnings with missing selection (true bug or half way between bug and non-bug ?)

[Bernhard Voelker]

Update of bug #63765 (project findutils):

                  Status:                    None => Working as Intended    
             Assigned to:                    None => berny                  
                 Release:                    None => 4.8.0                  
           Fixed Release:                   4.8.0 => 4.9.0                  

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Those have been unlucky cases, indeed.

Incidentally, I used a bare 'find -delete' the other day myself (consciously)
instead of the usual 'rm -rf *'.

The -delete action is like a sharp knife, and a kitchen chef would never want
to
switch to a dull knife once she had a sharp one in her hand.

Re. adding a warning: this wouldn't help much ... as half a second later the
files/directories would be gone as well.

But adding such a warning to the manual is a good thing - which we actually
did in the last release 4.9; here's the commit:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/findutils.git/commit/?id=58747d778e

Thus said, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but at this point I don't
see that we should change the behavior.
As such, I'm marking this as "working as intended" for now.


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