I regularly use the find command in scripts to clean directories on my servers.
The common way to use find to do this is to write something like:
find ./my_dir -name 'cache-*' -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
It works fine but it always outputs messages like this:
find: ./mydir/cache-001: No such file or director
which can be annoying when ran in a crontab.
I just found recently that using the option ‘-delete’ with find just fix this problem.
find ./my_dir -name 'cache-*' -delete
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