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Old 04-14-2008
find and remove last week dir
hello all,

I want to ask, how to find last week directory and then remove it..
I have a directory in path /home/backup/
and, inside backup dir, I have 6 dir :
- 01_20080414 ( today date )
- 02_20080414 ( today date )
- 01_20080413
- 02_20080413
- 01_20080407 ( last week date )
- 02_20080407 ( last week date )

I've used grep, but I don't know how to grep last week dir, since I want to use crontab on this script.

Thank you.
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Old 04-14-2008
If the directory's age can be used, use find
 
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