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David Hill schrieb:
> 
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 19:58:05 +0200
> Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > "Gardhy M. Saint-Vil" schrieb:
> > >
> > > Hello Everyone,
> > >
> > > Would anyone know how to delete files based on the date modified
> > > timestamp of files?
> >
> > find /your/path/to/clean/up -date 3 -rm
> >
> > man find is your friend.
> >
> > HTH
> > -Christoph Sold
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> 
> both -date and -rm are not options
> 
> Try this example
> 
> find /path -name *.txt -mtime argument | xargs rm -f

Apologies... went off the top of my head without looking which manpage
I'm reading. Sorry for the confusion.

Anyhow, here's the actual thingy off my BSD box:

find /path -mtime xxx -exec rm -f {} \;

Alternatively, -atime is an option, too. 

Sorry for the confusion
-Christoph Sold

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