find a dir and delete it

[goude]

Hello

I've got this line find . -type d -name 'elements' -exec rm -rf {} \; put together to find and delete all directories named elements and their contents.

It does work but whenever I run it I get the error/warning

find: `./dir3/elements': No such file or directory                                                    
find: `./dir6/elements': No such file or directory                                                    
find: `./elements': No such file or directory

Does anyone know why? It does delete all directories and subdirectories under the name elements though.

Thank you

[nmset]

Could not figure out why. If it's really annoying, you can redirect to /dev/null or pipe the output of find to rm

[blinky]

Try

find  .  -name "elements"    -type d  -prune -exec rm -rf {} \;

It's probably doing the delete at the higher level, then visiting the child sub/directories. Which are no longer there hence the error messages (just a guess)

[goude]

Thanks guys

[Feeyo]

Or easier:

find . -name elements -delete