[ale] THANKS to all who replied to "ls -rt | rm -i" problem, BUT...ATTN:JoeKnapka

[Joe Knapka]

Courtney Thomas wrote:
> Thanks Joe.
> 
> Exactly what I was lookin' for.
> 
> I should ask though, how'd you come up with "-f 9" in cut ?

Experimentation. I tried -f 8 first (counting the
fields left-to-right in the 'ls -l' output), but
found that it gave me the previous field. So I
tried -f 9, which worked.

Note Geoffrey's comment that my command won't work
if there are file names containing spaces.

Cheers,

-- JK

> Courtney
> 
> 
> 
> Joe Knapka wrote:
> 
>>Hi Courtney,
>>
>>This worked for me just now, to interactively
>>remove files modified on March 15:
>>
>>rm -i $(ls -l | grep 'Mar 15' | cut -d ' ' -f 9)
>>
>>Per another comment, there doesn't seem to be
>>a standard way to find out a file's creation date.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>-- JK
>>
>>Courtney Thomas wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>From a shell prompt, I can now sort a directory and then interactively 
>>>remove it's files. Thank you.
>>>
>>>I remain unable to filter the sorted list by date, the "sort +5" field 
>>>specifically, before selecting those to rm.
>>>
>>>Goal: show me the files of xx/yy/zz and let me choose whether to rm each
>>>
>>>Thanks once more,
>>>
>>>Courtney
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