[ale] THANKS to all who replied to "ls -rt | rm -i" problem, BUT...ATTN:JoeKnapka

[Courtney Thomas]

Thanks Joe.

Exactly what I was lookin' for.

I should ask though, how'd you come up with "-f 9" in cut ?

Courtney



Joe Knapka wrote:
> Hi Courtney,
> 
> This worked for me just now, to interactively
> remove files modified on March 15:
> 
> rm -i $(ls -l | grep 'Mar 15' | cut -d ' ' -f 9)
> 
> Per another comment, there doesn't seem to be
> a standard way to find out a file's creation date.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- JK
> 
> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>> From a shell prompt, I can now sort a directory and then interactively 
>>remove it's files. Thank you.
>>
>>I remain unable to filter the sorted list by date, the "sort +5" field 
>>specifically, before selecting those to rm.
>>
>>Goal: show me the files of xx/yy/zz and let me choose whether to rm each
>>
>>Thanks once more,
>>
>>Courtney
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