Deleting files by date

Completely Clueless · 11-05-2009, 06:04 AM

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.

ghostdog74 · 11-05-2009, 06:13 AM

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

linuxlover.chaitanya · 11-05-2009, 06:15 AM

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.