Bugtraq: Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab

[kaspar () soften ktu lt (Aidas Kasparas)]

On Fri, 24 May 1996, Colin Jenkins wrote:

> > This is true.  Perhaps a "{}" on the command line should be sub'ed with
> > the relative name and a "{{}}" should be sub'ed with the absolute
> > name.
> I agree that find's syntax would have to be (and should) be extended.
> Unfortunately, without extending the syntax of find, I think it would be
> virtually impossible to "fix" find to resolve this particular problem without
> breaking other uses of find.
        How about introducing -delete or -erase option in find. I don't
think it will brake any use and I'm sure it would be usefull - we
constantly need something to delete...


Aidas