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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Easy About Bash Script function Post 302302877 by marcus121 on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 08:47:55 AM
Old 04-01-2009
Look at the man pages for "find" command. Roughly what you're looking for:

#!/bin/bash
find $HOME -daystart -ctime 0 -type f >files_today.list # files modified today
find $HOME -daystart -ctime 1 -type f >files_yesterday.list # files modified yesterday

I'm not sure that "daystart" may be a Linux extension. If your OS doesn't support it, you can still accomplish this with ctime piped into a grep. My OS has date field in format "Mon dd" where dd is two-digit day with no leading zero. So April 1st would be:
"Apr 1" (i.e., two spaces between r and 1). So I would do:

#!/bin/bash
find $HOME -ctime 0 -type f | grep "Apr 1" >files_today.list
find $HOME -ctime 0 -type f | grep "Mar 31" >files_yesterday.list
find $HOME -ctime 1 -type f | grep "Mar 31" >>files_yesterday.list
 

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LEARN ABOUT BSD

time

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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