Hi, I am new to korn shell pgming..I need a script to do the following.. Delete all back up directories older than 30 days old directory structure is like this: under main PROCESS dir, I have LOGS1, LOGS2...sub dir LOGS1 dir will have current and LOGS1_12_1_2005, LOGS1_12_2_2005, LOGS1_12_3_2005 dir... LOGS2 dir will have current and LOGS2_12_1_2005, LOGS2_12_2_2005, LOGS2_12_3_2005 dir... similar with LOG3.. .. I have to delete all these LOGS1_12_1_2005, LOGS2_12_3_2005.. dir which are 30 days old in all sub dir of PROCESS. I really appreciate if anyone can help with this. Thanks, Iyer.A

Use the find command: find PROCESS/* -type d -mtime +30 -print|xargs rm -r Make sure the find works the way you think it will work: find PROCESS/* -type d -mtime +30 -print before sticking the rm stuff on at the end.