removing a file with hyphens

[Aaron Crane]

Smylers writes:
> David Cantrell writes:
> > Additionally, -delete seems to be a GNUism.
> 
> I encountered it on FreeBSD before it was added to GNU, but it may have
> been somewhere else first.  So where _did_ it come from then?

As near as I can make out from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi, it first
appeared in FreeBSD 2.2, in March 1997.  As you pointed out, GNU findutils
reimplemented it in late 2004.  Mac OS X and DragonFlyBSD were derived from
later versions of FreeBSD, so it's available in those, too.  None of the
other Unixes seem to have picked it up, including the other BSDs.

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Aaron Crane