Re: Easy way to Remove Files if match condition time?

To emphasize on the use of stat. You could get the epoch of the creation time of the file by doing:

#>stat -s FILE | awk '{print $11}' | sed "/.*=/s///"
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that was my first attempt at sed, be gentle. You get the idea though.

or in perl:

if (-M FILE > 1) { unlink FILE; }
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Where 1 == one 24 hour day. If you wanted 12 hours -- it would be 0.5. Have Fun.

Justin

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Re^2: Easy way to Remove Files if match condition time? by EchoAngel (Pilgrim) on Feb 04, 2005 at 23:07 UTC
thank you so much!!	[reply]