Stephen R Laniel wrote:
The easiest way wouldn't involve the filename at all. If you
know that a file created on date D is stamped with date D --
i.e., if your files all look like so:
(13:09) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls filename-20061207.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 slaniel slaniel 0 2006-12-07 13:09 filename-20061207.tar.gz
-- then you can just use find(1). You could do something
like
find directoryName -mtime +X -print0 |xargs -0 rm '{}'
just a related questions, how is the above different from:
$> find directoryName -mtime +X -exec rm -f '{}' \;
->HS
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