Shell Programming and Scripting

noop. Not working. Already tried because i want to delete as per pattern

Code:

directory name is -> "Direct 2013 -11-10 53354"

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Update: After checking i found that sometime it create two directories in one day with same name but with last number become change, as i mentioned earlier. like below format.

Code:

Direct 2013-09-10 53354
Direct 2013-09-10 53945

If -mtime +4 criteria does not satisfy by itself your requirement, you have to give find another criteria as an AND as well.

Example:

Code:

find <directory> -name <pattern> -type d -mtime +4 -exec rm -rf '{}' \;

That translate to find any directory AND check that the name match pattern AND that the modified time is more than four days old, if so delete its content and itself

The issue is that you would have to know a pattern which will distinguish both directories with same -mtime. If I am understanding your requirement.

I don't want to use mtime, i want to search on criteria, lets suppose today date is 2013-11-10 so it keep all directories from 2013-11-10 till 2013-11-07, rest directory first it show and then delete it, My directory name format is "Direct 2013-11-10 53354"

Is this of any help?

Code:

#!/bin/bash

t_mark=`date --date="4 days ago" +"%s"`

ls -d Direct* | while read d
do
    dirname_tokens=(`echo $d`)
    t_epoch=`date --date="${dirname_tokens[1]}" +"%s"`
    [[ "$t_epoch" < "$t_mark" ]] && ls -d "${d}"

done

Not working. Dear sir it is showing all dates. I am not searching on date base need to search on date pattern.