Question

On my linux machine I have a directory tree like this:

rootDir
|--123456789
|    |-- test
|    |-- live
|
|--234456789
|    |-- live
|
|--454354334
     |-- test

And I would need to find all top level directories that have both directories (“test”, and “live”) and then delete the “test” one. I would like to accomplish this with a single line command, if possible.

Answer 1

find <directory_name> -type d -exec sh -c "cd {} && [ -d live ] && [ -d test ] && echo \"Deleting test from {}\" && rm -rvi test " {} \;

echo is optional. vi options added to rm to make it verbose & interactive
When you said delete test one I am assuming only the test directory.
But if you want to delete the parent directory that contains both then try

find <directory_name> -type d -exec sh -c "cd {} && [ -d live ] && [ -d test ] && cd ../ && echo \"Deleting {}\" && rm -rvi {} " {} \;

Hope this helps!