[BUG] command execution (--exec) not working as expected

[notDavid]

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• I have read the troubleshooting section and still think this is a bug.

Describe the bug you encountered:

Hi there,

Noob here, probably a misunderstanding on my side, but not sure what i'm doing wrong, can someone please advise?

Thank you!

bsh ❯ tree
.
├── test1
│   ├── 1.txt
│   └── 2.txt
└── test2
    ├── 3.txt
    └── 4.txt

3 directories, 4 files

 ~/tmp/test
bsh ❯ fd --exec rm -i
remove ./test2/4.txt? remove ./test1/2.txt? remove ./test1/1.txt? rm: ./test2: is a directory
rm: ./test1: is a directory
remove ./test2/3.txt?

 ~/tmp/test
bsh ❯ tree
.
├── test1
│   ├── 1.txt
│   └── 2.txt
└── test2
    ├── 3.txt
    └── 4.txt

3 directories, 4 files

 ~/tmp/test
bsh ❯ fd --exec rm -irv
remove ./test2/4.txt? remove ./test2/3.txt? remove ./test1/2.txt? examine files in directory ./test1? remove ./test1/1.txt? examine files in directory ./test2?

 ~/tmp/test
bsh ❯ tree
.
├── test1
│   ├── 1.txt
│   └── 2.txt
└── test2
    ├── 3.txt
    └── 4.txt

3 directories, 4 files

Describe what you expected to happen:

I would expect rm to ask for confirmation to delete each file & folder, but it just spams all the output and does nothing...

What version of fd are you using?

fd 9.0.0

Which operating system / distribution are you on?

macOS 14.2.1
arm64

[notDavid]

I expect what is needed is something like xargs option -o ? :

-o
Reopen stdin as /dev/tty in the child process before executing the command.
This is useful if you want xargs to run an interactive application.

[tavianator]

By default fd runs commands in parallel, so passing the input through to them would behave very weirdly. If you add -j1 it will work:

tavianator@graphene $ fd bar -j1 -x rm -i
rm: remove regular empty file './bar'? y

[notDavid]

Thank you for explaining @tavianator 🙏🏼️ 👍🏼️