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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Number of files in a directory modified on a date Post 302432731 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 26th of June 2010 09:37:03 AM
Old 06-26-2010
assume date is Jun 01, 2010, i.e., 201006010000 -> 201006012359
Code:
find_em()
{
     #usage find_em dirname
     find $1 -type f  \( -newer dummy -a ! - newer dummy1 \) -exec ls -l {} \;
}
touch -t 201006010000  dummy
touch -t 201006012359  dummy1
# list the files
find_em /path/to/files
# count the files
find_em /path/to/files | wc -l

 

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GETLASTMOD(3)								 1							     GETLASTMOD(3)

getlastmod - Gets time of last page modification

SYNOPSIS
int getlastmod (void ) DESCRIPTION
Gets the time of the last modification of the main script of execution. If you're interested in getting the last modification time of a different file, consider using filemtime(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns the time of the last modification of the current page. The value returned is a Unix timestamp, suitable for feeding to date(3). Returns FALSE on error. EXAMPLES
Example #1 getlastmod(3) example <?php // outputs e.g. 'Last modified: March 04 1998 20:43:59.' echo "Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod()); ?> SEE ALSO
date(3), getmyuid(3), getmygid(3), get_current_user(3), getmyinode(3), getmypid(3), filemtime(3). PHP Documentation Group GETLASTMOD(3)
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