[ale] HOW2 filter a directory of file names... by DATE... ?

[Courtney Thomas]

Thank you for your help and pardon my obtuseness  :-)   but...

If I understand your recommendation...the -cmin flag to find, pertains 
to modifications times of a file, not it's actual implementation date.

I want to be able to say, e.g. "delete all files in this dir that were 
put there on 3/7/06, and ONLY that date".

How can -cmin do that ?

Appreciatively,
Courtney



Pete Hardie wrote:
> On 3/13/06, Courtney Thomas <cc.thomas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>>That is, I want to delete files of a certain date from a directory.
> 
> 
> find may do the trick
> find <dir> -cmin <xmin> -exec rm \;
> 
> is a possible solution - look at the man page from find to get the
> details of the time-based filters
> 
> 
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