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deleting files on particular date

Hello,

In unix what is the command to delete files created on a particular date.
for example: I have a list of files in a directory
Nov 8 08:30 abc
Nov 8 17:00 xyz
Nov 9 12:30 test
Nov 9 14:45 test2
Nov 9 18:15 quick
Nov 10 07:20 quick2
Nov 11 19:00 quick3

Now i would like to delete file quick2 generated on Nov 10..... what would be the command???

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To list out
$ ls -l|grep "Nov 10" |awk '{print $9}'

To delete
$ rm `ls -l|grep "Nov 10" |awk '{print $9}'`

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