this is designed to delete files by date from the current directory….it was googles fault for providing “source” in a .deb with relative paths without being clear. plus it was my fault for not doing a test extract prior to doing a real one….pretty irrelevant but was needed to tidy up my /usr/local/src
by design will remove files dated 2008-11-07 from slackware’s ls -al …probably would be wise to trial run it by changing the xargs to an echo first ;-)
#ls -altrh |grep ‘2008-11-07’ |awk {‘print $8’} |xargs rm -rfv