Deleting files by date
 

Hi all,

I had a program run riot and it has created hundreds of spurious files in one directory. Fortunately they are all dated 4th November so are easily identified. What bash command can I use from the console to delete them all? thanks.

use the find command with mtime option. I let you figure out what number to give mtime since after 400+ posts, i believe you are not completely clueless anymore

You can use rm command to delete the files. If you want to delete the files with some specific intentions like deleting files older than x days or last accessed on some day you can use find command to find the files and then delete using | xargs.