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Comment by Galanwe | Hacker News Reader

I have the same habit. I also use a somewhat similar "dry run" trick in `find` calls, such as:

    $ find foo/ -type f -name 'bar*' -exec echo rm {} \;

Yes, but I usually need to look up the -exec clause, because `{} \;` just feels hinky.

Modern versions has -delete as an option.

That is a GNU findutils extension, and modern means 2004 in this instance¹ ;) I spelunked because I thought "that always worked, didn't it?"