-delete Delete files; true if removal succeeded. If the removal failed, an error message is issued. If -delete fails, find's exit sta‐ tus will be nonzero (when it eventually exits). Use of -delete automatically turns on the -depth option. Warnings: Don't forget that the find command line is evaluated as an expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified. When testing a find command line that you later intend to use with -delete, you should explicitly specify -depth in order to avoid later surprises. Because -delete implies -depth, you cannot usefully use -prune and -delete together.