Hi, I am trying to make a script that finds if inside a folder there are more than 2 subfolders; if so, I want to erase the older subfolder.
I thought this would be useful:
But it only erases subfolders older than one day, and I would want that subfolders get erased if there are more than two, even if none of them is older than one day.
How could I modify the command?
Thanks for your help.
Edit: Sorry, didn't use code tags
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Last edited by Hammerhand; 04-17-2012 at 06:23 AM..
No, you are right, sorry. I was drifting away while testing out and thought about having additional levels etc. not seeing the wood for the trees...
Didn't think about much easier ls -t which does it all for us:
Keep in mind that both solutions are looking for files in that directory, not only directories. So with rm -r you will get an error when encountering non-directory files.
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