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@peasant
Many thanks for your reply.

The OS is debian-linux-gnu

It looks like using atime is not the best choice and ctime is the ideal switch as the files in the folder won't be written once...

I'm trying to delete the files that are 5 days old..
Clearly the modified date is April 15 for workorders.sql
My code won't delete it. However if I use +4 then it will delete it. Am I missing...

drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin dbadmin 4096 Apr 21 09:44 2020-04-17
drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin dbadmin 4096 Apr 21 09:44 2020-04-16
drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin dbadmin 4096 Apr 21 09:44 2020-04-20
drwxr-xr-x 2 dbadmin...

Sorry, I made a mistake, my code did not work and i used your code it's working.
Can you explain what is [0-9][0-9][0-9]

let me know if you can suggest any improvement in my code. I think i have too many ECHO.



#! /bin/bash

DATABASE=$1
DATE=$2
MYLOGIN=/home/dbadmin/login_dev.ini...

Thanks madelngermany,

I used find ~/ -name 'bin.0000[01-9][10-999]' and it worked.

Can you explain what is [01-9][10-999]?

I have sequential files like this. I'm trying to write a bash shell script to list all of them. These files are part of mysql to do database point in time recovery

bin.000001
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bin.000999...