Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: Greg Wooledge Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: Re: -e does not take effects in subshell Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:00:43 -0400 Lines: 11 Approved: bug-bash@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20150811135056.GD4309@eeg.ccf.org> <55CC26A7.10000@redhat.com> <55D39A71.2030109@tlinx.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lists.gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: usenet.stanford.edu 1439931651 25639 208.118.235.17 (18 Aug 2015 21:00:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: action@cs.stanford.edu Cc: "bug-bash@gnu.org" To: Linda Walsh Envelope-to: bug-bash@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55D39A71.2030109@tlinx.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 139.137.100.1 X-BeenThere: bug-bash@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for the GNU Bourne Again SHell List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com gnu.bash.bug:11383 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 01:49:53PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Ex: rmx -fr (alias to rm --one-file-system -fr, since rm lacks the > -x switch like 'find, cp, mv, et al.) no longer works to clean > out a directory && stay on *one* file system. When did POSIX or any historical Unix rm have a --one-file-system option? You say "no longer works" as if it had EVER worked in the past. And yes, the standard way to do this (the only way with traditional tools) would use find ... -xdev ... -exec rm {} +