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jsias99
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:18 pm Post subject: Help deleting some stuff again sorry

Hi guys its me again, but now i have another problem i have a .tar file and its full of emails what would be the command to un tar it then delete all of the files from a surtain date up?

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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject:

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Code:

tar xvf <your-file>

would unpack the contents in the current directory.
You can then select files up to a certain date with find(1) and run a command on the matches (rm would do nicely).

man tar, man find.
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