Delete directories older than 60 days

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks!
I have a list of directories named as

I am trying to delete if they are older than 60 days based on their names, but not getting any luck the way I am trying.

...
use File::Path qw( rmtree );
use Date::Simple ('date', 'today');
...

my $dir = '/dir/';
  opendir (DIR, $dir) or die "Couldn't open $dir directory, $!";

    while (my $directories = readdir DIR) {
          
      next if $directories=~/^\./;
      my $dir_found = $directories;
      $dir_found =~s/(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{4})/$3-$1-$2/;

      # Difference in days between the dates:
      if (date($dir_found) - date($months_ago);

      
      if($days_diff >= 60){
            
         rmtree("$dir/$directories")|| die ("ERROR:::cant delete: $!")
+;
         
         }
    }

  closedir DIR;
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Is there a better way of doing this?
Thanks for looking!

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Re: Delete directories older than 60 days by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 14, 2014 at 20:13 UTC
If you're stuck on the date portion, try this: `use warnings; use strict; use Date::Simple qw(date today); my $today = today(); while (<DATA>) { chomp; if (/(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{4})/) { my $dir_date = date(sprintf '%4d-%02d-%02d', $3, $1, $2); print "delete $dir_date\n" if ($today - 60) > $dir_date; } } __DATA__ 11012014 11132014 10092014 09092014 11112015 01012015 04012015 01042011 10122014` [download] Output: `delete 2014-09-09 delete 2011-01-04` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Delete directories older than 60 days by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2014 at 20:53 UTC
Yes, it worked: `... use File::Path qw( rmtree ); use Date::Simple ('date', 'today'); ... my $dir = '/dir/'; opendir (DIR, $dir) or die "Couldn't open $dir directory, $!"; while (my $directories = readdir DIR) { next if $directories=~/^\./; if ($directories=~/(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{4})/) { my $dir_date = date(sprintf '%4d-%02d-%02d', $3, $1, $2); if (($today - 60) > $dir_date) { rmtree("$dir/$directories")\|\| die ("ERROR::: cant delete: $!"); } } } closedir DIR;` [download] I woder if it could be done with "Time::Piece;" instead of "Date::Simple". But thanks for the help!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Delete directories older than 60 days by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 14, 2014 at 21:36 UTC
Yes. In fact it even simplifies the code, and you can use the Core Time::Piece module: `use warnings; use strict; use Time::Piece qw(); use Time::Seconds qw(ONE_DAY); my $t = Time::Piece->new(); my $past = $t - (60 * ONE_DAY); while (<DATA>) { chomp; if (/\d{2}\d{2}\d{4}/) { my $dir_date = Time::Piece->strptime($_, '%m%d%Y'); print "delete $_\n" if $past > $dir_date; } } __DATA__ 11012014 11132014 10092014 09092014 11112015 01012015 04012015 01042011 10122014` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Delete directories older than 60 days by poj (Abbot) on Nov 14, 2014 at 21:22 UTC
`#!perl use strict; use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds; my $today = localtime; while (my $mdy = <DATA>){ chomp($mdy); my $dt = Time::Piece->strptime($mdy,"%m%d%Y"); my $age = int (($today - $dt) / ONE_DAY); print "$mdy $age\n"; } __DATA__ 11012014 11132014 10092014 09092014 11112015 01012015 04012015 01042011 10122014` [download] poj	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Delete directories older than 60 days by Laurent_R (Canon) on Nov 14, 2014 at 19:43 UTC
This is probably not going to compile: `if (date($dir_found) - date($months_ago); if($days_diff >= 60){` [download] It looks like you changed your mind about on how to do this, but did not make all the changes needed after this change in mind, so that this part of the script hardly make any sense now. Either you create a variable for the difference, or you check the difference directly. Here, your `if` clause has no conclusion, and `$days_diff` has not been declared, nor initialized. Similarly, `$months_ago` has not been declared nor initialized, and the name is suspicious of a possible bug or misunderstanding. I would assume, from your narrative, that you want to compare the directory date against the current date, but that's quite far from what you do.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Delete directories older than 60 days by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2014 at 19:49 UTC
my bad, it should read: `# Difference in days between two dates: my $diff = date('2014-11-14') - date('2014-11-01');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Delete directories older than 60 days by RonW (Parson) on Nov 14, 2014 at 22:09 UTC
File::Find can find directories older than a specified time/date.	[reply]
Re: Delete directories older than 60 days by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2014 at 19:50 UTC
There is certainly a better way. Start by telling what exactly is wrong. Error messages etc.	[reply]
Re^2: Delete directories older than 60 days by Anonymous Monk on Nov 14, 2014 at 20:02 UTC
What is wrong, it will delete all the directories in there if one of them matches the criteria.	[reply]