How to avoid “No such file or directory” Error for `make clean` Makefile target

Question

I have a Makefile that defines a .PHONY clean target for cleaning up .o files and executables, that target looks like:

...
.PHONY : clean
clean:
    rm $(add         


        

Answer 1

I've given up with rm. The following command will remove files and dirs.

find . -delete

To remove only files or only dirs, there is the -type option:

# remove only files
find . -type f -delete


# remove only dirs
find . -type d -delete

Actually, I've create a little script (based on that snippet) named bomb that removes files without complaining: https://github.com/lingtalfi/bomb