Hello Senhia,

I didn't test your code but rmdir will work only if directories are empty(User didn't mention here about the same either directories are empty or not).

Hello Devendra Hupri,

Could you please be more clear on your requirement and give us more details like do we need to check each directory's subdirectory also and perform same deletion operation there except 5 directories?

EDIT: Also Devendra, I have added <= condition now in solution POST#2, could you please try those and let me know if that helps.

Code:

ls -ltr $TGTDIR | awk '/^d/ {A++;X[++j]=$NF} END{for(i=1;i<=A-5;i++){print "rm -rf " X[i]}}'

Then if happy with above command:

Code:

TGTDIR=/tmp
ls -ltr $TGTDIR | awk '/^d/ {A++;X[++j]=$NF} END{for(i=1;i<=A-5;i++){print "rm -rf " X[i]}}' | sh

Thanks,
R. Singh