I am trying to write a Korne Shell Script, wherein the user is prompted for a date and a directory and then it starts searching recursively in this directory the list of all the files modified after the date chosen.

I wrote the following Script but it seems to be not working :-

#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset DATE=`date +%d%m%y`
echo "Enter a date (DDMMYY) and a directory.."
read files
Find "$dir’ -type f -name -mtime "$files"

Anyone, please let me know the correct way.

Thanks in advance.

it should be

find "$dir" -type f -name "$files" -mtime $N

There is no e in Korn.

ummmm...to fix the code

#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter a date (YYMMDD) "
read dte
touch -t "$dte"0000 /tmp/$USER.ksh-search
echo "Enter a directory.."
read dir
find $dir -type f -newer /tmp/$USER.ksh-search
rm /tmp/$USER.ksh-search

but really, i like porters suggestion better :-)

Maybe he was confusing it with some other daemons:

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I'd make that:

find "$dir" -type f -name "$files" -mtime +$N