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Old 05-28-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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You want mtime - time the file was last modified.
I use touch and -newer in find for exact results:
Code:
/home/jmcnama> touch -t 200905280000 dummy2
/home/jmcnama> touch -t 200905270000 dummy1
/home/jmcnama> ls -l dummy*
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jmcnama    prog             0 May 27 00:00 dummy1
-rw-rw-rw-   1 jmcnama    prog             0 May 28 00:00 dummy2

/home/jmcnama> find . \( -newer dummy1 -a  ! -newer dummy2 \)
./t.awk
./filename
./dummy2