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crankypuss <crankypuss@nomail.invalid> writes:

On 12/27/2014 09:57 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 23:52:41 -0500
Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

How about the -delete option in gnu find?

So instead of running this on the results of a find "-exec /bin/rm {}
\;" you can just use -delete.

Aragorn suggested that, too. Contrariwise, I think that one of the
main reasons to 'find' files is to delete them and have no problem
with, "find <this> and delete it." That seems to be a good use for a
small package with only file finding (and massaging) involved.

Cybe R. Wizard

The fact that you "have no problem with" ignoring the UNIX philosophy
when it doesn't seem to hurt anything is a sad, sad thing. Start
smooshing functions together when that's convenient, just add one
little option to do this extra thing needed at the moment, and it
spreads. Get developers doing it and eventually you have a real mess
to clean up. Some might call that "a joke".

It's pretty widespread by this point. It's certainly messy and
inefficient. I myself don't have a way to fix it though, and even if I
did have a way I don't think I'd have the time to devote to it.

Not that it's all the fault of developers, given sufficient time most developers would probably prefer to do things right, but corporate
profit requirements apply continual pressure, and as the world economy becomes more "globalized" the pressure will increase, competition will increase, and people will get bitchier about everything until it's 7
billion people all pulling their hair out and biting each other on the
leg.

GNU seems to be pretty bad at this type of thing. Their software tends
to accumulate features, and like emacs, have everything including the
kitchen sink. I suppose this is part of why GNU's Not UNIX. Stallman
chose the unix environment, but he didn't set out to create a UNIX.

I try to be somewhat pragmatic about it all. I prefer UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD
over Windows and Mac. I just get on with my work (and play). There's
always so much more to learn about computers than I know now, and that
keeps me busy.
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