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Old 10-23-2008
Question To remove files before certain date

I juz started to pick up unix nott long.
What i am gonna do here is to try and remove some files before a date. (example 1st Oct 2008)
Format of files name: fileA_2008MMDD
I did a ls -lrt to list all the files
Followed by rm 200801**
..
..
..
rm 200809**

Is there a more efficient way to this?

Appreciate for ur help
Thz a million Smilie
 

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