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OS: Mac Mojave 10.14.3

I have recently begun teaching myself python, and have written a command that I execute after updating packages to recursively clear out the "pycache" folders. The command uses the "trash" formula from homebrew.

cd '/Library/Frameworks/python.framework/versions/3.7'
find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -exec trash {} \;

The command works great, but my question is regarding the output terminal displays when its running. Instead of showing every directory that is being deleted, it only displays directories being skipped because they don't contain "pycache" folders. Why is the output backwards like this?

For reference here is a portion of the output:

find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/util/__pycache__: No such file or directory
find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/__pycache__: No such file or directory
find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/contrib/__pycache__: No such file or directory
find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/__pycache__: No such file or directory
find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/backports/__pycache__: No such file or directory
find: ./lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/urllib3/packages/ssl_match_hostname/__pycache__: No such file or directory

Thanks

bfontaine
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Anthony
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trash is silent by default. If you want it to be verbose, use the -v option:

trash -v

The full command now looks like this:

cd '/Library/Frameworks/python.framework/versions/3.7'
find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -exec trash -v {} \;
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