find: `./folder': No such file or directory

Question

This is the contents of the directory I\'m working with:

misha@hp-laptop:~/work/c/5$ ls -l
total 8
-rw-rw-r-- 1 misha misha  219 May 20 15:37 demo.c
drwxrwxr         


        

Answer 1

You can change your find command to this:

find . -mindepth 1 -not -name demo.c -delete

• -mindepth 1 ensure that you don't select DOT
• -delete will delete all files and directories