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I am able to delete files or directories older than 1 day using below command

find /u01/Release/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -r ;

but why I am getting error in the output of this command:

ls -lrt 
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat8 tomcat8 60 Oct 4 07:11 build_180
drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 309 Sep 21 2017 redis-3.2.11
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1550452 Oct 4 15:23 redis-3.2.11.tar.gz

find: ‘/u01/Release/redis-3.2.11’: No such file or directory

after executing command

ls -lrt 
drwxr-xr-x 3 tomcat8 tomcat8 60 Oct 4 07:11 build_180
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1550452 Oct 4 15:23 redis-3.2.11.tar.gz

This is very well known issue. The problem is that find first removes directory and then tries to process files inside it. A solution is to first deal with stuff inside directory and only then delete directory. That's what -depth option is for, so:

find /u01/Release/* -depth -mtime +1 -exec rm -r ;

should do the trick. You may also be interested in the shorter form using -delete action (which implies -depth):

find /u01/Release/* -mtime +1 -delete

As always man find is your friend.

Try the below, Better to use --force which will delete files and directories.

find /u01/Release/* -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf ;


-r, -R, --recursive
 remove directories and their contents recursively
-f, --force
 ignore nonexistent files, never prompt