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Old 04-17-2012
Deleting files based on Substring match

In folder there are files
(eg ABS_18APR2012_XYZ.csv
DSE_17APR2012_ABE.csv) .
My requirement is to delete all the files except today's timestamp

I tried doing this to list all the files not having today's date timestamp


Code:
#!/bin/ksh

DATE=`date +"%d%h%Y"`
DIR=/data/rfs/
FOLDER=Test
FILE=$DIR$FOLDER

UDATE="$(echo $DATE | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]')"

ls $FILE | grep -v "${UDATE}"

exit 0

This is listing all the files not having today's date timestamp. Now I have to delete the files which are listed .Kindly help me out how I can delete the files.

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