mbriney of Mount Vernon Labs
6/30/2016 - 12:44 PM

Remove all of the files between hour X and hour Y regardless of their date

Remove all of the files between hour X and hour Y regardless of their date

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# Find the files tha tmeet the criteria 
# this is helpful if you want to preview what you will delete
find . -newermt "`date --date="yesterday" +%b" "%d" "%Y" 18:00:00"`" \! -newermt "`date  +%b" "%d" "%Y" 07:00:00"`" -exec ls –lart {} \;


# Actually then delete the files
find . -newermt "`date --date="yesterday" +%b" "%d" "%Y" 18:00:00"`" \! -newermt "`date  +%b" "%d" "%Y" 07:00:00"`" -exec rm {} \;