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by **Alan Myer** » Wed, 31 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Hi Y'all,
Can anyone tell me a good way to globally delete any files in a certain
directory and its subdirectories created before a certain date? Thanks.

by **Cheng-Jih Ch** » Wed, 31 Dec 1997 04:00:00

Quote:>Hi Y'all,
>Can anyone tell me a good way to globally delete any files in a certain
>directory and its subdirectories created before a certain date? Thanks.

man find

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by **S.Tompkin** » Sat, 03 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> Hi Y'all,
> Can anyone tell me a good way to globally delete any files in a certain
> directory and its subdirectories created before a certain date? Thanks.

>
use the atime parm with find and do an -exec rm

by **John Riddoc** » Fri, 09 Jan 1998 04:00:00

> >Hi Y'all,
> >Can anyone tell me a good way to globally delete any files in a certain
> >directory and its subdirectories created before a certain date? Thanks.

> man find

Actually, you can't. You can delete files which were modified or
accessed before a certain date, but not those which were _created_
before a certain date. Unix FS only stores the modification time
(which is the creation time just after creation) and access time.
This is, perhaps, one advantage of filesystems like FAT on the PC
which store creation, modification and access times.

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Simple rm question

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