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Another thing you can try is to add the -depth switch. It'll force the find comand to test files before directories. The effect being that if a directory contains files that do not meet the...

find is recursive, so your rm doesn't have to be.

You shouldn't depend on the modification time of the directory anyway, since I think that relates to when files were created/deleted, not when...

How to Use Code Tags in The UNIX and Linux Forums

Developer: This video tutorial was created by scott (https://www.unix.com/members/302063521.html) for forum users. Everyone should use code tags...

echo $#
echo $@

Yes, because the long listing of ls (with -l) gives (i.e.) -r-x... 2 user group 1234 20 Sep 2010 filename.. These all become arguments to xargs.

You can do everything you need without -l
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That's a useless use of backticks (http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html#backticks) or would've been. Why use `echo $var` when you already have $var?

if [ "$host" == "xxx_xxx_test" ]
then
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You can sort on second field using underscore as delimiter :
ls * | sort -t_ -k2

That is provided that filename before date doesnt contain underscore.