I have Solaris 10, ksh88, perl 5.8.4 and am wanting to process shell commands inside of date-named directories.

20110219
20110220
20110221
20110222
20110223
20110224
20110225
20110226
20110227
20110228
20110301
20110302
20110303

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Many, many more directories exist. Requirements: Take start date, end date, and process (from end date to start date backwards) through all directories in that range. Wondering what the best way to cd /dir/archive/20110303 issue a shell command, check for certain other conditions, and then go backwards and cd /dir/archive/20110302, issue same shell command, check, and etc. Should I use perl (fairly new at) or ksh? Example code would be appreciated.

My date command for ksh doesn't support -d option, and no real way to install the GNU date command.

In reply to processing dates as directories by moesplace

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