Bash scripting: Deleting the oldest directory

Question

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 -

Answer 1

find directory_name -type d -printf "%TY%Tm%Td%TH%TM%TS %p\n" | sort -nr | tail -1 | cut -d" " -f2 | xargs -n1 echo rm -Rf

You should remove the echo before the rm if it produces the right results