Hi Monks!
I have a list of directories named as
11012014
11132014
10092014
09092014
11112015
01012015
04012015
01042011
10122014

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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!

In reply to Delete directories older than 60 days by Anonymous Monk

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