Hi, I want to delete directories owned by ID1 if they are older than 2 days and also delete directories owned by rest of the ID's in the same directory, if they are older than 5 days. I was able to seperate the list of directories by their ID. How do I compare these directories' modification time with the current time to decide on whether to delete or not? Any Ideas...

Hi, You should be carful to delete directories. ok the statement below will delete all directorys of user ID1 including the content of the directory and sub dirs. find /u/ID1 -type d -mtime +2 -user ID1 -exec rmdir -R {} \; You know, make a copy of things which you delete. tar -cf - -C /u/ID1 \ `find . -type d -mtime +2 -user ID1` \ |compress -C >> wech.tar.Z NO RISK no Fun Frank

Thanks for the info.. and your suggestion. But, How do check the modification time of directories that doesn't belong to ID1 before deleting them? Thanks

Hi, just don't ask for the userId. If you delete 1 all directory's of ID1 which are older than 2 day's and than delete all directorys from all users (including ID1) which are older than 5 days than it is not nessecary to extract directorys of user ID1, because they was already deletet. find /u/ID1 -type d -mtime +5 -exec rmdir -R {} \;