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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Display files created on particular date & time Post 302599210 by codemaniac on Thursday 16th of February 2012 12:17:33 PM
Old 02-16-2012
Deal Pal ,

Your requirement seems kind of vague .Do ypu want to find out files that are created recently and delete them off ? then try this (with utmost care) .


Code:
find ~ -mmin -2 -type f -print -exec rm {} \;

 

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