Include a --depth option

[muellerj]

First of all thanks for a great tool!

For renaming nested files/folders, find(1) has a -depth option which traverses the file-system in a depth-first order in order to avoid trying to rename an item in an already renamed folder:

# Rename all files and folders containing "_foo" by replacing "_foo" -> "_bar"
find . -iname _foo -depth -exec rename _foo _bar '{}' \;

Any chance of having a similar option for fd?

See: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html#EXPRESSION

I've seen that there has been some discussion about breadth first/depth first traversal already - thank you for your consideration.

[dbohdan]

The readme currently carries the following note about deleting files:

There are scenarios where using fd … -X rm -r can cause race conditions: if you have a path like …/foo/bar/foo/… and want to remove all directories named foo, you can end up in a situation where the outer foo directory is removed first, leading to (harmless) "'foo/bar/foo': No such file or directory" errors in the rm call.

If this option was implemented, it seems like the note could be replaced with a recommendation to use fd … --depth -X rm -r.