Clarify (hopefully) the description of -remove.

Fixes PR/38987
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.\" $NetBSD: find.1,v 1.68 2009/10/15 02:26:38 joerg Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: find.1,v 1.69 2009/11/06 21:03:12 dsl Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
.\" from: @(#)find.1 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/9/95
.\"
.Dd July 19, 2007
.Dd November 6, 2009
.Dt FIND 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
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24-hour periods.
.Pp
.It Ic -delete
Delete found files and/or directories.
Delete found files, symbolic links and directories.
Always returns True.
This executes from the current working directory as
.Nm
recurses down the tree.
It will not attempt to delete a filename with a
To avoid deleting unexpected files, it will ignore any filenames that
.Xr fts 3
returns that contain a
.Dq /
character in its pathname relative to
.Dq \&.
for security reasons.
.Xr ( fts 3
should not return such pathnames).
Depth-first traversal processing is implied by this option.
This can also be invoked as
.Ic -rm .