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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting rm -rf ab returns find: `./ab': No such file or directory Post 302730195 by rinser on Monday 12th of November 2012 10:11:24 AM
Old 11-12-2012
Thanks Scott - that has resolved the issue.

Could I cheekily ask one more thing?

Quote:
You get the error because find cannot find the file 'ab', not from the rm command (-f removes that error).
How do you mean that find cant find the file? Before the rm -rf it must find it in order to delete it, right? It just seems that after the rm -rf it tries to find the file again and then presents the error.

Why am I getting the error when the file is clearly there??
 

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