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Old 05-29-2007
ennstate ennstate is offline
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Find & Remove
Hope this is what you are looking for,

Code:
find . -name '*MMDDYYYY*' -type f  -exec rm -i {} \;
I have added the option -i to the rm command.Incase you are sure to remove all the pattern matched files take out the "-i" and try.

Thanks
Nagarajan G