[ale] When a script is necessary, and when a piped command is sufficient ?

[William Witt]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed March 15 2006 9:44 am, Courtney Thomas wrote:
>   
>>         1-find or ls
>>         2-sort [by file date]
>>         3-rm [interactively]
>>
>> I'd prefer a prompted command sequence rather than a script.
>>
>> For example...
>>
>>         ls -l | sort +5
>>
>> will print out the dir sorted by file date but I then need to rm
>> certain files of a certain date, that HAS been sorted out by the
>> above, the sort for putting all the files I want to remove in a
>> contiguous sequence so that I can page through the others to that
>> point quickly and interactively, to make sure I don't delete
>> anything unintentionally.
>>
>> I've briefly and unsuccessfully attempted to pipe this into some
>> sort of "rm" operation from the command line, but failed.
>>     
> you know you are going to get 75 different ways to do this...
> you can redirect the find results to a file OR pipe it to a cut command 
> to get just the filenames and maybe even a "for i in 'cat_that_file" 
> do rm $i done...
> but I'm sure Geoffrey will have a more elegant method:)
>
>   
You can use midnight commander (or your favorite gui file browser) and 
change the sort order.
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