I was givin the task to clear up space in one of our directories. I was wondering if their was an ls command that I can search for a certain date (i.e. all files created in 2005) to display those files and then use a wildcard to delete all files created in a certain year. If so, this would make my life alot easier. I appreciate any help.

Thanks

Take a look at the find command.

dear

you can use the find command as below to find the files that have been modified more than two days ago and delete them:
find /ect -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm -fr {} \;
for more info see the man find

regards;
The Engineer
IBM Certified Specialist

Thanks for the head start. Please any other help will be greatly appreciated.

Ooopsie, Thank you!

I see that the help you guys have givin me so far are a start. Is their not a way you can search by the YEAR instead of "how many days" a file was lost modified or accessed? Let me know either way please.

Thanks again

ls -l | awk '$8==2005{print $NF}' | xargs ls -l

will give you a long listing of all files that have 2005 in the date.

This will not work for files less than 6 months old (it shows the time, not the year in all versions of UNIX I have worked in).

Of course, you could get really fancy and use the system function in awk, but this is slightly faster.