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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting using rm with find -exec gives error Post 302579453 by Sekullos on Monday 5th of December 2011 06:42:39 PM
Old 12-05-2011
using rm with find -exec gives error
Greetings,

Everytime I use rm with find I get errors like find: ./test: No such file or directory

For exemple :

Code:
hostname> mkdir test
hostname> ls
test
hostname> find . -type d -name test -exec rm -rf {} \;
find: ./test: No such file or directory
hostname>ls
hostname> echo $?
1

So the command completes the required action (deleting the directory called "test") but returns an exit 1
It's kinda annoying
When I do a simple rm -rf i get no error

Any idea?
 

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NAME

       cupstestppd - test conformance of ppd files

SYNOPSIS

       cupstestppd [ -I category ] [ -R rootdir ] [ -W category ] [ -q ] [-r] [ -v[v] ] filename.ppd[.gz] [ ... filenameN.ppd[.gz] ]
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       cupstestppd  tests  the	conformance of PPD files to the Adobe PostScript Printer Description file format specification version 4.3. It can
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       The  first form of cupstestppd tests one or more PPD files on the command-line. The second form tests the PPD file provided on the standard
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OPTIONS

       cupstestppd supports the following options:

       -I filename
	    Ignores all PCFileName warnings.

       -I filters
	    Ignores all filter errors.

       -I profiles
	    Ignores all profile errors.

       -R rootdir
	    Specifies an alternate root directory for the filter, pre-filter, and other support file checks.

       -W constraints
	    Report all UIConstraint errors as warnings.

       -W defaults
	    Except for size-related options, report all default option errors as warnings.

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       -W translations
	    Report all translation errors as warnings.

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