Yup, you're right on that, I just tested it.
The -i file trick will prevent command line snafu's
such as 'rm -rf'.
In the case of '-r' it causes rm to ask:
rm: descend into directory `a'?
When used with find | xargs rm however, the '-i' is not passed.
I tried with '-exec rm {]\;' but that no longer seems to work.
Dunno if the syntax has changed, or what.
jkstill-2 > find . -exec 'rm -rf' {}\;
find: missing argument to `-exec'
[ /home/jkstill/tmp/rm_test ]
jkstill-2 > find . -exec 'rm ' {}\;
find: missing argument to `-exec'
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
