On Mon, 07 Jan 2002 02:01:36 -0600 Gary Turner <kk5st@swbell.net> wrote: > A day or two ago, I noticed that somewhere in my effort to get > acquainted with my Debian box, a few hundred files of type 'c' > (character, as opposed to regular or block) had shown up in my home > directory. All were created 12/21/01. My wish is to be rid of them. > I did: > > $ ls -l | grep "Dec 21" | less Instead of using 'ls', I would suggest you use 'find' instead; > and inspected the lot. There should be a way to delete these files > using grep and redirection/piping or a shell script. My thought is > some kind of iterative script, in pseudo code: > > for x in ( ls -l | grep "Dec 21" ) > do > rm x( suitably parsed ) > done So, with 'find', it would be: for i in $(find ./ -type c) do rm "$i" done -- .--=====-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `-------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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