First off, you are going to want to put the year first or you will run into
problems in the future, so just:

mkdir save`date +%y%m%d`

Then you can use the -d switch to specify what date you want:

rm -rf save`date +%y%m%d -d "yesterday"`
rm -rf save`date +%y%m%d -d "3 days ago"`
rm -rf save`date +%y%m%d -d "3 months ago"`

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Eric R.
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:54 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: bash scripting question
>
>
> Afternoon LugNuts,
>
> Ok, I have a group of directories named "save(and the date) i.e.
> "save021303".
>
> Iv'e discoverd I can make the current days directory using:
>
> mkdir save`date +%D | cut -c 1,2,4,5,7,8`
>
> My question is, how would I delete the directory that is several days
> old?  i.e. save021003
>
> rm -rf ??
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Eric
>
>
>