G'day rrrrr,

Welcome to the monastery.

Firstly, I'd recommend using something like ls -l instead of rm -rf while you're testing: avoid accidentally deleting the wrong files.

Backticks (`...`) are interpolating quotes in Perl - you don't need the surrounding double quotes. To identify directories, use -type d in the find command. I'm not sure what \{\} \ is doing: I'd use \\; in that position.

Putting all that together, this works for me: 

my $command = `find . -type d -ctime +14 -exec ls -l {} \\;`;

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Unless you want to capture the output from the find command, consider using system instead of backticks.

You also might like to take a look at Perl's file test operators: -M, -A and -C.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: To Delete folders older than 14 days.-Want one liner command by kcott
in thread To Delete folders older than 14 days.-Want one liner command by rrrrr

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