Make 2 files that will be the marking point of the beginning and the end.
touch -t yyyymmddHHMMSS start_date_file_name touch -t yyyymmddHHMMSS end_date_file_name
Then delete everything between those 2 days:
find . -type f -newer start_date_file_name ! -newer end_date_file_name -exec rm -f {} \;
In english that command means:
Find all files in this folder (and recursively down) that are newer than start_date_file_name and not newer than end_date_file_name, then run rm -f on each of those files.
To see what is being deleted:
find . -type f -newer start_date_file_name ! -newer end_date_file_name -exec rm -vf {} \;
EXAMPLE:
Delete every file newer than 1990/01/01 and older than 2013/01/01 in this folder (not recusively down)
touch -t 19900101000000 start_date_file_name touch -t 20130101000000 end_date_file_name find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -newer _START ! -newer _END -exec rm -vf {} \;
Another Article:
Find & Delete files older and newer than X days. (not by date, but age). Another article on same topic: Deleting files by age