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Thanks Piotr, Frank and Cameron for the reply. It could help me.
PS: sorry for late reply, I began my holiday since I posted this question.
LinuxKH
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:17:34PM +0200, Piotr Grabowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | > How can I delete files with specificed date ?
> | > E.g: I want to delete only 'messages.log.*.gz' of the year 2000.
> |
> | On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, LinuxKH wrote:
> | Well maybe:
> | $ find / -name messages.log.*.gz -ctime date_in_datetime_format -exec rm
> | {} ;
>
> Neater is
>
> find messages.log.*.gz -mtime +n -exec rm {} ';'
>
> The starting point of find doesn't _have_ to be a directory you know...
>
> Also, it's probably more reliable to work off mtime instead of ctime;
> the latter is last _change_ to inode, not creation time as many imagine.
> Which means it gets reset also by acts like chmodding the file.
>
> The +n above should have n equal to the number of days you want to
> consider old enough. Say 210 for the 7 months back to 2000.
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK!
> - on the label of Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap
>
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