[Bug 288277] find(3) -delete flag doesn't delete all found directories

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288277

Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> changed:

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                 CC|                            |emaste@freebsd.org
         Resolution|---                         |Not A Bug
             Status|New                         |Closed

--- Comment #2 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
find -delete fails if attempting to delete a non-empty directory:

$ mkdir -p test-directory
$ touch test-directory/test-file
$ find . -iname test-directory -print -delete
./test-directory
$ echo $?
0
$ ls -l test-directory/
total 1
-rw-r--r--  1 emaste emaste 0 Jul 18 11:57 test-file

as explained in the man page:

             The -delete primary will fail to delete a directory if
             it is not empty.  Following symlinks is incompatible with this
             option.

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