Re^2: Delete Old Directories

All that make sense, but if I have in this directory other directories like:

How could I compare these dates from the directory names if they are 45 days older than today's date. With the dates above I would have to delete 09052011 directory because its 45 days older than today's date.

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Re^3: Delete Old Directories by choroba (Cardinal) on Oct 20, 2011 at 12:21 UTC
Your date format is different from the proposed one. To make things easy, you should be using this one: `20110905 20111015 20111016 20111017 20111018 20111019 20111020` [download] Then, just generate the string for the day 45 days ago and remove everything lesser. How to find what that days' date was? How yould you proceed without a computer? Would you calculate the date, or just have a look into a calendar?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Delete Old Directories by Marshall (Canon) on Oct 24, 2011 at 06:08 UTC
This is exactly the right idea! The file names shown will sort with a simple string comparison based upon the text from the file name. I am at a loss as to how to make this more clear. Working with the filename is just much easier and more obvious than working with OS specific things like the -M file test.	[reply]