4.1.7 find directories & exec oddness

[Illtud Daniel]

Hi,

I'm having difficulty with directories and find.

Originally I was doing:

% find . -name 'Trash' -exec 'rm -rf {}' \;

and I was getting:
find: rm -rf ./reel216/Trash: No such file or directory

although the directory existed.

Googling about, I realised that I needed 'depth', or that possibly
'rm -r' was complaining.... but I've tried all the options and
simplified my problem to this point:

% find . -name Wills -exec "ls -l {}" \;
find: ls -l ./reel204/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel200/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel205/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel183/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel156/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel407/Wills: No such file or directory

This is on two different machines (so I don't think it's an
filesystem corruption), running RHEL 3.0 with find 4.1.7.

Can anybody else reproduce this:

$ mkdir reel1
$ mkdir reel1/Wills
$ mkdir reel2
$ mkdir reel2/Wills
$ find . -name Wills -exec "ls -l {}" \;
find: ls -l ./reel1/Wills: No such file or directory
find: ls -l ./reel2/Wills: No such file or directory

Was this a bug that's been fixed, or am I using find incorrectly?

Thanks!

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Uwch Ddadansoddwr Systemau                       Senior Systems Analyst
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru                  National Library of Wales
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