I'm currently trying to write a script that will do the following:

search a given directory tree for a file with MMDDYYYY in the name.
delete those files only.

I can't figure out how to make the script delete the files with the MMDDYYYY in the filename after finding them.

Should I export it to another file, have the script read the file and then delete the entries? If so, how?

Thanks in advance!

Hope this is what you are looking for,

find . -name '*MMDDYYYY*' -type f  -exec rm -i {} \;

Thanks for the reply.

When I run that I'm getting an error which says:

syntax error near unexpected token `('

If I take out the

-exec rm () \;

I guess you have misspelled it is {} and not ()

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.

You're exactly right. I had just figured it out and was going to post that up when I saw you've replied.

Thanks again

The choice of file name must be clarified :

find . -name '*[01][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' -type f -exec rm -i {} \;

that would make '19392007' valid.... need to work out the valid regex (accounting for the leap years as well.