Guys, I'm sorry about asking this on the list; but I seem to have a mental block when it comes to regular expressions. Here's what I'm trying to do:
I have a lot of directories with a vast number of files, some of which I wish to delete based on the month they were created. I've built a file from some full directory listings that has all the files I wish to delete. (Just go with me on this and don't suggest alternative methods of performing the task - I'm simplfying the job so it can be explained more easily.) A snippet of the file would look like this: -rw------- 1 auser auser 3.7K Apr 12 10:11 auser/folder/new/127109228.file -rw------- 1 auser auser 16K Apr 12 12:32 auser/folder/new/127110076.file I would like to write either single-line perl command or a nano search and replace to substitute the directory info and replace it with a file delete so it would look like this: rm -f auser/folder/new/127109228.file rm -f auser/folder/new/127110076.file Then I can just execute converted directory file as a shell script and delete my files. But I'm having a brain-freeze on what a valid regex would look like to match. Help?? Thanks again, -- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
