When I do a ls -lt I get a list of files by date modified from newest to oldest. I would like to be able to copy some files to another directory using a date last modified range (i.e. Apr 30 - May 13) How could I do this?

Thanks,
Joe

find has an option in most versions to pick files by age, or you could simply note the first and last files in the range and pipe ls -t output to a sed script to pick out that range.

You can also tell find to find files that are newer than one file.
will print all the files that were modified since the last time timestamped_file was modified.

man find reveals all.

I ended up using just adding a -exec cp {} ./mydir \; to the end of the find command and it worked like a charm. Thanks for help!

hi
you can use find command with -mtime flag

like
find . -mtime (-n or n or +n) | xargs cp dirname

-n for files modified in last n days
n for files modified exactly on last nth day
+n fro files modifed before last nth day

Abhishek Gera