I want to look for the oldest directory (inside a directory), and delete it. I am using the following:
rm -R $(ls -1t | tail -1)
ls -1t | tail -1
does indeed gives me the oldest directory, the the problem is that it is not deleting the directory, and that it also list files.
How could I please fix that?
rm -R "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%T@\t%p\n' | sort -r | tail -n 1 | sed 's/[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\t//')"
This works also with directory whose name contains spaces, tabs or starts with a "-".
This is not pretty but it works:
rm -R $(ls -lt | grep '^d' | tail -1 | tr " " "\n" | tail -1)
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