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| author | Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> | 2016-04-30 18:58:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> | 2016-04-30 18:58:06 +0100 |
| commit | 45cc06e3de6c5eed0544072a9b48f21ae63b577b (patch) | |
| tree | 2b5645fa5b355b2f1b86cc46b814d4eda3faa910 | |
| parent | 6d46ab2cca742e8661fbd5a20568b8974c1cac4f (diff) | |
| download | perl-45cc06e3de6c5eed0544072a9b48f21ae63b577b.tar.gz | |
perlrun: note the existence of find's -delete switch
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776614
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 1ff3ce2472..e454bf80c7 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -706,9 +706,10 @@ at least a week: find . -mtime +7 -print | perl -nle unlink This is faster than using the B<-exec> switch of I<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 B<-0>. +have to start a process on every filename found (but it's not faster +than using the B<-delete> switch available in newer versions of I<find>. +It does suffer from the bug of mishandling newlines in pathnames, which +you can fix if you follow the example under B<-0>. C<BEGIN> and C<END> blocks may be used to capture control before or after the implicit program loop, just as in I<awk>. |