20 Nov
2012
20 Nov
'12
1:52 a.m.
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
[...]
"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
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rgds
Stephen