Bug#776614: mention 'before find's "-delete" operator was added'

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson jidanni at jidanni.org
Thu Jan 29 23:54:40 UTC 2015


Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.20.1-5
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlrun.1.gz

Mention 'before find's "-delete" operator (or switch?) was added':

            Here is an efficient way to delete all files that haven't been
            modified for at least a week:

                find . -mtime +7 -print | perl -nle unlink

            This is faster than using the -exec switch of find because you
            don't have to start a process on every filename found.  It does
            suffer from the bug of mishandling newlines in pathnames, which
            you can fix if you follow the example under -0.




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