-exec on find(1) broken

[Eric Blake]

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According to Marty Leisner on 10/10/2007 12:10 AM:
> 
> Geez, thanks Brian...I've been using find for 25 years and never realized it had 
> a delete option .

That's because, until a few years ago, it didn't (and it is still only GNU
find that has it; don't try using it in a POSIX-compliant script).

> I often used -exec with cp/mv -- but coreutils has an option (-t) so you 
> can put these after xargs...

Or, if you are worried about POSIX portability (since mv -t is also a GNU
extension), you could do things like this to still get the target
directory in the last location:

find ... -exec -c 'mv "$@" target' sh {} +

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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