[bug #42985] find reports "No such file or directory" when executing rm

[James Youngman]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #42985 (project findutils):

> find $(pwd) . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -regex $cpat -prune -o -exec rm -rfv
{} \+ >/dev/null 2>../error.log

The documentation explains why you should not do that.

9.3 Cleaning Up
===============

This section gives examples of removing unwanted files in various
situations.  Here is a command to remove the CVS backup files created when an
update requires a merge:

     find . -name '.#*' -print0 | xargs -0r rm -f

   If your 'find' command removes directories, you may find that you get a
spurious error message when 'find' tries to recurse into a directory that has
now been removed.  Using the '-depth' option will normally resolve this
problem.



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