Re: Why has "find ... -exec rm -i '{}' ';'" stopped working?

[Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com>]

Almut Behrens wrote:

> (It's called from within launch(), which is handling the option -exec)
> 
> This function is simply not present in the old sources (4.1.20).
> 
> Well, I guess it's worth filing a bug report, to let the original
> authors figure out what it was that made them add this code -- and
> whether there is a way to work around the issue.  Apparently, they
> didn't think anyone would ever want to do something like you do... ;)

Someone else was doing it!  There's already a bug report:
#317019 
"findutils: find and "rm -i" does not work like as previous releases."