Re: find command has a bug?

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2019-01-13 zcj5918 <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think find has a bug that can be launched by combining several
> commands together, in that it chokes by generating an erroneous report
> when I use inode to delete a directory, although it does remove the
> corresponding directory correctly.


> Please see what happened below:


> Here is the kernel info:


> Is there anything wrong with my operation?  I am looking forward to
> your feedback.


https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html#Cleaning-Up

| 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.

cu Andreas