I am trying to use the find command to search for files and remove
them prior to the date specified.

I need to hard code the date in the find such as dd/mm/yy not in that
format.

I don't want to put -atime +100 to eliminate files prior to 100 days.

can it be done using find or any other means

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:12:58 -0700, rogv24@yahoo.com
<rogv24@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to use the find command to search for files and remove
> them prior to the date specified.
>
> I need to hard code the date in the find such as dd/mm/yy not in that
> format.
>
> I don't want to put -atime +100 to eliminate files prior to 100 days.
>
> can it be done using find or any other means
>
You can touch a file with that date and use find ! -newer filename.


--
Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them. Others are so fast,
they don't notice you.

On Jul 17, 10:04 am, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:12:58 -0700, rog...@yahoo.com <rog...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > I am trying to use the find command to search for files and remove
> > them prior to the date specified.
>
> > I need to hard code the date in the find such as dd/mm/yy not in that
> > format.
>
> > I don't want to put -atime +100 to eliminate files prior to 100 days.
>
> > can it be done using find or any other means
>
> You can touch a file with that date and use find ! -newer filename.
>
> --
> Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them. Others are so fast,
> they don't notice you.

Yes the file touch trick works well.
Me? I am lazy,
One way I have "listed" out files for later action is to use find -ls
and egrep
Some examples,
To list only files of July 12 13 14,
find -ls|egrep "Jul[ ][1][234]"
To make a list of file names that I might use later,
find -ls|egrep "Jul[ ][1][234]"|tr -s ' '|cut -d ' ' -f12

I have used the the egrep trick to drop out files of a sepc date, or a
date range, like weekend only files, etc. For your issue, you would
have to set up a list for the egrep. That part I leave to u.
2 cents... JB