Is it possible to list a group of files by date range using UNIX
command (i.e. ls -alt), script, awk, etc.?  I just want to be able to
retrieve a list between dateA and dateB in script.

Thanks!

> Is it possible to list a group of files by date range using UNIX
> command (i.e. ls -alt), script, awk, etc.?  I just want to be able to
> retrieve a list between dateA and dateB in script.

How about using 'find ... -newer <oldest-file>' and then also
'find ... \! -newer <newest-file>' and then using 'comm' to 
find the intersection of these two lists?

Alexis

On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 07:55:55 +0200, Alexis Huxley wrote:

>> Is it possible to list a group of files by date range using UNIX
>> command (i.e. ls -alt), script, awk, etc.?  I just want to be able to
>> retrieve a list between dateA and dateB in script.
> 
> How about using 'find ... -newer <oldest-file>' and then also
> 'find ... \! -newer <newest-file>' and then using 'comm' to 
> find the intersection of these two lists?
> 
> Alexis

Or even just use -newer and ! -newer on the same find command line.
If you need to be specific about the date range you can use touch to create
files with a specific date.
Adam

On 2004-09-04, Alexis Huxley <ahuxley@gmx.net> wrote:

> How about using 'find ... -newer <oldest-file>' and then also
> 'find ... \! -newer <newest-file>' and then using 'comm' to 
> find the intersection of these two lists?

Or how about just using:

find ... -newer <oldest-file> \! -newer <newest-file>

.... and let one find command do it all for you? :-)

And if you want to specify a specific period, you can always
create <oldest-file> and <newest-file> yourself, with the needed timestamps:

$ touch -t 20040823 /tmp/oldfile
$ touch -t 20040824 /tmp/newfile
$ find /home/foo/documents -newer /tmp/oldfile \! -newer /tmp/newfile

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Alexis Huxley wrote:

>>Is it possible to list a group of files by date range using UNIX
>>command (i.e. ls -alt), script, awk, etc.?  I just want to be able to
>>retrieve a list between dateA and dateB in script.
> 
> 
> How about using 'find ... -newer <oldest-file>' and then also
> 'find ... \! -newer <newest-file>' and then using 'comm' to 
> find the intersection of these two lists?
> 
> Alexis

Or this variant where mtime is modification time in days
in this script:

find . -type f -mtime +1 -a -mtime -2 -exec /bin/ls -ld "{}" ";"

This gives me, on my system, all files which have been modified
more than one day ago, but less than or equal to 2 days ago.
I believe that the granularity is by calendar day, rather
than "24 hours or more ago".  Check the man page on your system
for more options to find.

NPL

P.S. - some folks prefer to use xargs version rather than
the exec version.  Your choice.


-- 
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof
because fools are so ingenious"
  - A. Bloch

gilgantic@yahoo.com (gilgantic) writes:

> Is it possible to list a group of files by date range using UNIX
> command (i.e. ls -alt), script, awk, etc.?  I just want to be able to
> retrieve a list between dateA and dateB in script.

find . -mmin -<start> -mmin +<end> -print


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