find delete shows "No such file or directory"

Question

I just run a command to "find and delete files & folder older than 100 days" on a folder, and got the following:

$ find . * -mtime +100 -delete
find: May_01_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_02_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_03_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_04_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_05_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_06_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_07_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_08_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_09_2015: No such file or directory
find: May_10_2015: No such file or directory

The folder names are correct (they should be deleted), but why is it complaining that it could not find those folders? (they were there)

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Also, it's interesting, when I do:

$ find "$(pwd)" * -mtime +200 -print

I sometimes see the same file listed twice. I wonder if that's the reason. Why is it going through the same file twice?

Answer 1

You don't need .* with find and the space between . and * is often a mistake, since the * will expand to every entry in the current directory, and tell find to use that as a path to search. That's also why your other find sometimes shows files twice. If the j$(pwd) actually matches a file it will also be matched by *.

So your delete one will probably do better as:

find . -mtime +100 -delete

Though you might want to do it with -print to make sure you're getting what you want before deleting them of course.

Answer 2

100 Days = 144,000 Minutes = 144000 Minutes

       -daystart
              Measure  times  (for  -amin,  -atime,  -cmin, -ctime, -mmin, and -mtime) from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago.  This option only affects
              tests which appear later on the command line.



 find "$(pwd)" -daystart -amin +144000 -exec ls -ltrio {} +