[OT]: Ho wto find files created on a specific date
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Wed Apr 2 14:19:55 UTC 2008
Dan Track wrote:
> Hi
>
> I need to delete files in my /opt/html/ directory that were
> created/modified ON the 20th of March this year? Is there a way for me
> to do this?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
man find
The find command will do all you need it to do. Tons of options for
searching for files based on access/modify/creation times. I've never
tried the 'exec' part of find, I usually just pipe the output to
whatever else I might need (and in this case you can pipe if to rm with
arguments.
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