Shell Programming and Scripting

I have these following report directories that i need to cleanup (sample):

201001
201002
201003
201004 #with subdirectory 01
201005
201006 # with subdirectory 02

When I use this find command:

Code:

find . -type d -mtime 300 -print;

I got the below result which is ok for me (the subdirectories showing):
201001
201002
201003
201004
201004/01
201005
201006
201006/02

BUT: when i use the below command:

Code:

find . -type d -name "2010*" -mtime 300 -print;

I got the below result (subdirectories not showing):
201001
201002
201003
201004
201005
201006

This is a problem when i want to exclude some directories:

Code:

find . -type d -name "2010*" -mtime 300 ! -name "201006*" -print;

Above commande, I want to exclude the 201006 folder including its subdirectories. The result didnt show the main directory but showed the subdirectory.
201003
201004
201005
201006/02

The above scenarios post an issue when im trying to delete the folder with an exemption like below:

Code:

find . -type d -name "2010*" -mtime 300 ! -name "201006*" -exec rm -rf {} \;

The result is it is deleting the subfolder 201006/02 which shouldnt happen

Aprreciate if someone can shed a light on why the find command is behaving like this.

Thanks

Code:

find . -type d -name "2010*" -mtime +300 |grep -v 201006 |xargs rm -rf

If run today, this will look at directories with modification time older than April 13 2010 (i.e. more than 300 days ago). Unless the timestamp on your directories is unreleated to the directory name, the figure 300 seems unlikely.

I cannot explain why "-mtime 300" found anything but there was a thread recently on this board where someone had a wonky "find" command. There is much variation in the "find" command and it always helps to know what Operating System and version you have.

Given that you appear have directory names containing a date it would seem to be sensible to use the directory name rather than the "-mtime" parameter.

For my understand, -mtime 300 only finds the folder/files which were modified on that day (that's April 13 2010 if your calculation is right). That's why I add + .