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Reopen voters: The 'already answered' question, is different. I am not looking to match the folder names, I want to look at the creation date time and use this to find the x days. I will be looking for folders older than 6 months, so unless I am mistaken, the 'already answered' is incorrect.

Inside a directory, I store date named folders of website backups. 

/Users/myname/Desktop/rsync/

As an example:

/Users/myname/Desktop/rsync/10-06-18
/Users/myname/Desktop/rsync/11-06-18
/Users/myname/Desktop/rsync/12-06-18

In my bash script, I need to check to find any direct descendants of the 'rsync' folder that are older than x days and delete them.

Using the following, I am able to find files that are older than 2 days, but this is within the child folders as well.

find /Users/myname/Desktop/rsync -mtime +2 -print

If anyone can show me how I would limit this to just the direct descendant folder and potentially how to delete them, that would be much appreciated.

peterh
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  • You first point out that you have folders with dates in their names, but you don't want to use these date? Also, the datestamp of _creation_ is most likely not stored, unless that's what the folder name is. – Kusalananda Jun 15 '18 at 09:15
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    I added another dupe. This looks at the modification time of folders, and at least one answer discusses `-maxdepth` and `-mindepth`, which is what you want to use, along with `-prune`. – Kusalananda Jun 15 '18 at 09:32
  • See also a similar question: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/228216/moving-folder-older-than-30-days-to-another-folder Note that you will want to add `-maxdepth 1` to this, apart from taking my comment to the (currently only) answer there into account. – Kusalananda Jun 15 '18 at 09:48
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    Are the modification timestamps of those date-stamped directories not in alignment with their filename-date? – Jeff Schaller Jun 15 '18 at 11:01

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