Deleting folders that are older then X Days

[sharapov]

My backups run every day and generate a folder(directory) with *.sql files in it. How can I go through a spesific directory and delete all folders (with contents) contained in this directory that are older then 10 days (for example) from today's date.

Thanks.

 

[sleipnir214]

I would get a handle to the directory using opendir(). I would then fetch each filename (skipping "." and "..&quot using readdir().

For each filename I fetched from the directory using readdir(), I would hand the filename to stat() to find out the file times.

I would then compare the file's ctime to the current timestamp. If the file is older than 10 days, I would delete it using unlink().

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