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# 8  
Old 03-08-2017
Hi Don,

Thank you.
Would be helpful if you can provide an example to use find -ctime. I need to lst the file which created from 06-MAR-2017 to 08-MAR-2017.


Code:
$ find . -ctime ABC_P_070317.txt
find: Specify a decimal integer for -ctime
Usage: find [-H | -L] path-list [predicate-list]

Thanks
Bharat
# 9  
Old 03-09-2017
Isn't that error message self explaining?

As the -ctime argument specifies an interval of n*24h (counted from NOW) and not an absolute date, the command depends on the date/time it is run for today, 9.3.2017, it looked like
Code:
find . -ctime +0 -ctime -2 -name "ABC_P_*.txt"

(but cf man find for peculiarities). To specify intervals less than a day, consider the -cmin test.
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# 10  
Old 03-09-2017
When you want to specify a range of times that is related to the start of a day instead of something that is a multiple of 24 hours from the time when you run your script, also consider using touch to create files with the starting and ending timestamps and using find's -newer primary a couple of times...
Code:
trap 'rm -f /tmp/start.$$ /tmp/end.$$' 0
touch -t 201703060000 /tmp/start.$$
touch -t 201703090000 /tmp/end.$$
find . -newer /tmp/start.$$ ! -newer /tmp/end.$$ -name 'ABC*' -name '*_I_*'

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# 11  
Old 03-13-2017
Thank you Don and Rubi. I am working on the solution based on your inputs. will post the code once its ready.

Thanks
Bharat
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