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[ale] HOW2 filter a directory of file names... by DATE... ?
- Subject: [ale] HOW2 filter a directory of file names... by DATE... ?
- From: Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com (Dow Hurst)
- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:35:45 -0500
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Courtney Thomas wrote:
>That is, I want to delete files of a certain date from a directory.
>
>Thank you.
>Courtney
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If you have a backup on that date or the day before you can use that to
compare and find files that appeared after. If you actually still have
incremental backups from each day then the files your interested in will
be newly appeared on the 7th, not present on the 6th, and checkable for
mods or time stamp changes on any backup thereafter. Just tar tvf your
tar backup (if that is what it is) to a file to get the listings of the
tape contents. Then you could diff to your hearts content.
Dow