Shell Programming and Scripting

Code:

date +%Y-%m-%d --date='1 day ago'

Actually the output of the above command will be

Code:

  
2010-03-17

So the $dir will contain 2010-03-17.
But your directory name is 2010-03017.

Both are different. so that only it is not removing.
Try to change the directory name format.

oppsss sorry....
typo error - missied hyper above..
both , my directory name is 2010-03-17 and the script are same..
but still 2010-03-17 exist...

Have you checked the permissions for that directory?
And can you tell me... You told that one process is creating these directory and whether that process is owned by you?

yes ofcourse one proces creates this directory...
but as a trial iam creating the carbon copy of this directory at the root i.e/home/uat and then trying your script.

---------- Post updated at 03:21 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:19 PM ----------

again i tried to change the permissions of the directory chmod 777 2010-03-17 and then again excuted, but still the directory exists there..

---------- Post updated at 03:33 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:21 PM ----------

when is use the below code -
dir=`date +%Y-%m-%d --date='1 day ago'`
find /home/uat -iname $dir -exec rm -rf {} \;

This Delete the folder 2010-03-17
but throws an
ERROR -
find: /home/uat/2010-03-17: No such file or directory

Because it is trying to find a file in path /home/uat/2010-03-17 under
/home/uat.

so how to proceed..

---------- Post updated at 03:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:38 PM ----------

but it deletes the folder which is my requirement...but with an error as above

We need to extract only the direct name from the whole path.
And execute the above find command.
i.e $dir is having /home/uat/2010-03-17
From this you need to extract 2010-03-17 only.

Use the code below

Code:

dir=`date +%Y-%m-%d --date='1 day ago'`
dir=`echo ${dir##*/}`

find /home/uat -iname $dir -exec rm -rf {} \;