Question

I am working on a project to automatically delete specific directories which are older than a day. I have got the following piece of code working:

find Directory/ -type d -name "Directory.To.Delete.*" -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;

It runs fine and deletes the directory (and contents) as expected, however it always ends with an error:

find: cannot chdir to Directory/ : No such file or directory

Is there a way to run this code without facing this error? I don’t understand why this code is trying to chdir after deleting the directory.

Answer 1

Add -prune before -exec; that will stop find from entering matches directories:

.... -mtime +1 -prune -exec ...