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Old 02-26-2010
get a list of folders and find files older than...
I am trying to get a list of folders contained in a given directory and would then like to delete any folders/files older than 60mins.

So far I am able to get the list of folders using:

Code:
ls -l /home/uploads | grep '^d.*'

the output:
Code:
drwxr-xr-x  6 flk  flk       4096 2010-02-11 13:30 APC-3.0.14
 drwxr-xr-x  5 flk  flk       4096 2010-01-08 12:52 downloads
 drwx------ 15 flk  flk       4096 2010-02-23 15:27 irclogs
 drwxr-xr-x  2 flk  flk       4096 2010-01-25 21:40 logs

Sadly the above output is far too much info, I just want the folder names so that i can do something like:

Code:
find /home/uploads/APC-3.0.14 -name "dontdelete" -prune -o -type f -mmin +60 -print -delete
find /home/uploads/downloads  -name "dontdelete" -prune -o -type f -mmin +60 -print -delete

Anyone know how i could possibly combine the ls grep with the find so that it iteratively walks the folders?
# 2  
Old 02-27-2010
You can achieve it by the following command.

find /home/uploads -type d | find -type f -mmin +60 -exec rm -rf {} \;
# 3  
Old 02-27-2010
MySQL solution
Is this you want ,

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Get the directory you want to search as the command line argument
# For eg : /home/uploads/ as $1

dirs=`ls -l $1 | grep '^d.*'| cut -d ' ' -f 9 `
for dir in $dirs
do
  find $1/$dir -name "dontdelete" -prune -o -type f -mmin +60 -print -delete
done

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