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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Delete all files created in specific year Post 303036576 by drysdalk on Wednesday 3rd of July 2019 08:50:25 AM
Old 07-03-2019
Hi,

In theory, this should be fairly straightforward. If you want to delete all files created from 2017 and beyond (i.e. also files from 2016, 2015, etc - anything older than 2017), then you could do something like this:

Code:
find /path/to/files -type f -mtime +549 -exec rm -fv \{\} \;

That would find all files older than 549 days (at the time of writing, the number of days since December 31st 2017) and remove them.

Now, if you really want to only remove files from 2017, and only 2017, then it's slightly more complicated, but not much so. Assuming your version of find supports it, this would do the trick:

Code:
find /path/to/files -type f -newermt 2017-01-01 \! -newermt 2018-01-01 -exec rm -fv \{\} \;

This will very specifically remove files whose modification time is newer than 1st January 2017, but not newer than 1st January 2018 (in other words - files from 2017).

Hope this helps. Please test carefully before running this with a live rm command - swap it out for an ls or switch out the -exec for a -print first just to be sure it really is going to catch what you want, and only what you want, before turning this loose on your filesystem for real.
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mid3v2

mid3v2(1)						      General Commands Manual							 mid3v2(1)

NAME

       mid3v2 - audio tag editor similar to 'id3v2'

SYNOPSIS

       mid3v2 [options] filename ...

DESCRIPTION

       mid3v2 is a Mutagen-based replacement for id3lib's id3v2. It supports ID3v2.4 and more frames; it also does not have the numerous bugs that
       plague id3v2.

       This program exists mostly for compatibility with programs that want to tag files using id3v2. For a more usable interface, we recommend Ex
       Falso.

OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
	      Be quiet: do not mention file operations that perform the user's request.  Warnings will still be printed.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose: state all operations performed. This is the opposite of --quiet. This is the default.

       -f, --list-frames
	      Display all supported ID3v2.3/2.4 frames and their meanings.

       -L, --list-genres
	      List all ID3v1 numeric genres. These can be used to set TCON frames, but it is not recommended.

       -l, --list
	      List all tags in the files. The output format is not the same as id3v2's; instead, it is easily parsable and readable. Some tags may
	      not have human-readable representations.

       --list-raw
	      List all tags in the files, in raw format. Although this format is nominally human-readable, it may be very long if the tag contains
	      embedded binary data.

       -d, --delete-v2
	      Delete ID3v2 tags.

       -s, --delete-v1
	      Delete ID3v1 tags.

       -D, --delete-all
	      Delete all ID3 tags.

       --delete-frames=FID1,FID2,...
	      Delete specific ID3v2 frames (or groups of frames) from the files.

       -C, --convert
	      Convert ID3v1 tags to ID3v2 tags. This will also happen automatically during any editing.

       -a, --artist=artist
	      Set the artist information (TPE1).

       -A, --album=album
	      Set the album information (TALB).

       -t, --song=title
	      Set the title information (TIT2).

       -c, --comment=DESCRIPTION:COMMENT:LANGUAGE
	      Set  a comment (COMM). The language and description may be omitted, in which case the language defaults to English, and the descrip-
	      tion to an empty string.

       -g, --genre=genre
	      Set the genre information (TCON).

       -y, --year=, --date=YYYY-[MM-DD]
	      Set the year/date information (TDRC).

       -Tnum/num, --track=num/num
	      Set the track number (TRCK).

       Any text or URL frame (those beginning with T or W) can be modified or added by prefixing the name of the frame	with  "--".  For  example,
       --TIT3 "Monkey!" will set the TIT3 (subtitle) frame to Monkey!.

BUGS

       No  sanity checking is done on the editing operations you perform, so mid3v2 will happily accept --TSIZ when editing an ID3v2.4 frame. How-
       ever, it will also automatically throw it out during the next edit operation.

AUTHOR

       Joe Wreschnig is the author of mid3v2, but he doesn't like to admit it.

								December 12th, 2009							 mid3v2(1)
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