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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to find created date of file in UNIX Post 302078943 by ShawnMilo on Wednesday 5th of July 2006 04:36:55 PM
Old 07-05-2006
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Originally Posted by amirthraj_12
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I need to write a script which has to list all the files which are created before six months from now.

kindly help on this ...
Use ctime instead of atime. I'm also assuming that you meant "created more than six months ago," because everything was created before six months from now."

find . -ctime +180
 

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TIME(3F)																  TIME(3F)

NAME
time, ctime, ltime, gmtime - return system time SYNOPSIS
integer function time() character*(*) function ctime (stime) integer stime subroutine ltime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9) subroutine gmtime (stime, tarray) integer stime, tarray(9) DESCRIPTION
Time returns the time since 00:00:00 GMT, Jan. 1, 1970, measured in seconds. This is the value of the UNIX system clock. Ctime converts a system time to a 24 character ASCII string. The format is described under ctime(3). No 'newline' or NULL will be included. Ltime and gmtime disect a UNIX time into month, day, etc., either for the local time zone or as GMT. The order and meaning of each element returned in tarray is described under ctime(3). FILES
/usr/lib/libU77.a SEE ALSO
ctime(3), itime(3F), idate(3F), fdate(3F) 4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 TIME(3F)
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