[bug #13650] find -exec rm -i {} ; broken since 4.2.12

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #7, bug #13650 (project findutils):

i understand, but that's not how -ok works.  OK is like -exec, it doesn;t just
ask it actually runs the command.   Hence the nearest thing to what you're
talking about that would actually work is 

find ... -ok true {} \;  -a -exec rm -i {} \; 

As you point out, this would ask twice.  Given the current code, the "true"
command would not be able to read from stdin, but doesn;t try, while the "rm
-i" command would be able to read from stdin.   So, what you wanted already
works.

If you were doing this for real though, this is probably better, but only asks
once:

find ... -ok  rm {} \; 

This is neater, but asks only once, since "rm" would not be able to read from
stdin.


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