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Article #48Re: RM LOGIC
From: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 21:12
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 21:12
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In article <1992Nov2.131722.27419@polari> errant@polari.online.com writes: There are many roman roads to the same solution, but what would be the quickest way to remove way to remove all files that were not created today?? There is no way to know what files were "created" today, thus your problem as stated is intractable. If you mean "modified", something like this will work: find /somewhere -mtime +1 -print | xargs rm -f or safer: find2perl /somewhere -mtime +1 -eval unlink | perl Just another Perl hacker, -- Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 merlyn@ora.com (semi-permanent) merlyn@reed.edu (for newsreading only) factoid: "Portland, Oregon, home of the California Raisins and Lone-Star Beer!"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!taco!gatech!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!news.u.washington.edu!ogicse!reed!romulus!merlyn From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: RM LOGIC Message-ID: <MERLYN.92Nov2131214@romulus.reed.edu> Date: 2 Nov 92 21:12:20 GMT Article-I.D.: romulus.MERLYN.92Nov2131214 References: <1992Nov2.131722.27419@polari> Sender: news@reed.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Stonehenge Consulting Services; Portland, Oregon, USA Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: errant@polari.online.com's message of 2 Nov 92 13:17:22 GMT