Shell Programming and Scripting

I'm currently trying to write a script that will do the following:

search a given directory tree for a file with MMDDYYYY in the name.
delete those files only.

I can't figure out how to make the script delete the files with the MMDDYYYY in the filename after finding them.

Should I export it to another file, have the script read the file and then delete the entries? If so, how?

Thanks in advance!

Hope this is what you are looking for,

Code:

find . -name '*MMDDYYYY*' -type f  -exec rm -i {} \;

I have added the option -i to the rm command.Incase you are sure to remove all the pattern matched files take out the "-i" and try.

Thanks
Nagarajan G

Thanks for the reply.

When I run that I'm getting an error which says:

syntax error near unexpected token `('

If I take out the

Code:

-exec rm () \;

then it works fine to find the files.

I guess you have misspelled it is {} and not ()

Thanks
Nagarajan Ganesan.

You're exactly right. I had just figured it out and was going to post that up when I saw you've replied.

Thanks again

The choice of file name must be clarified :

Code:

find . -name '*[01][0-9][0-3][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' -type f -exec rm -i {} \;

Jean-Pierre.

that would make '19392007' valid.... need to work out the valid regex (accounting for the leap years as well.