Stephen R Laniel wrote:
The easiest way wouldn't involve the filename at all. If you know that a file created on date D is stamped with date D -- i.e., if your files all look like so:(13:09) slaniel@whitehail:~$ ls filename-20061207.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 slaniel slaniel 0 2006-12-07 13:09 filename-20061207.tar.gz-- then you can just use find(1). You could do something like find directoryName -mtime +X -print0 |xargs -0 rm '{}'
just a related questions, how is the above different from:
$> find directoryName -mtime +X -exec rm -f '{}' \;
->HS