Shell Programming and Scripting

This has probably been asked before, but could not find it. I want to tar and zip directories that are over 30 days old and then delete the directory.

Thanks,
Kyle

how 'bout this?

Code:

#find em
FILELIST=`find ./ -mtime +30 -type d`

# tar em
for i in $FILELIST; do
       tar cvf $i'tar' $i
done    

# delete em
for i in $FILELIST; do
       rm -rf $i
done

Ebbtide,

This takes into consideration the UNIX time but not when the direcotry is created. If we need to consider the date the dir or file is created what is the procedure?

AFAIK The actual creation time is not tracked. The man page for stat reveals the 3 different valus you can key off of...

st_atime
Time when file data was last accessed. Changed by the
following functions: creat(), mknod(), pipe(),
utime(2), and read(2).

st_mtime
Time when data was last modified. Changed by the fol-
lowing functions: creat(), mknod(), pipe(), utime(),
and write(2).

st_ctime
Time when file status was last changed. Changed by the
following functions: chmod(), chown(), creat(),
link(2), mknod(), pipe(), unlink(2), utime(), and
write().