Thanks a lot.
with -prune option, now the find command works too.
find . -type d -name '.svn' -prune -exec /bin/rm -rf '{}' ;
________________________________ From: Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] strange 'find' tool behavior
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 04:44:31PM -0800, Gelen James wrote:
[root@centos_58_test_box workingDir]# find . -type d -name '.svn' -exec /bin/rm -rf '{}' ; find: ./.svn: No such file or directory
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"find" is attempting to open the ".svn" directory to see if there are any subdirectories to work on but it can't because you just deleted it.
You either need "-prune" to stop it going further down the tree or "-depth" to tell it to go down the tree first before running the -exec