Follow-up Comment #3, bug #46305 (project findutils):
With "-L bar -delete", find would have to delete 2 files:
a) the symlink target '../foo', and
b) the symlink itself 'bar/baz'.
I agree with James that trying to fix (or work around) this
would probably more ask for trouble than being of help.
>From 'man find':
-L ... Actions that can cause symbolic links to become
broken while find is executing (for example -delete)
can give rise to confusing behaviour.
Depending on where the symlink points to, deleting possibly
the opposite way up the tree sounds too dangerous IMO; consider:
ln -s ../../../../../../.. kllr-slink
or the 'symlink-to-root' example James gave.
Finally, also rm(1) and rmdir(1) do not have an -L option - probably
for a good reason.
Have a nice day,
Berny
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