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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Check number of files that were created before a date? Post 302624259 by hicksd8 on Monday 16th of April 2012 04:49:55 AM
Old 04-16-2012
One way to do this would be "find ! -newer"

Most find commands (depending on your Unix/Linux) implement a -newer switch.

Code:
 
find . -newer <date point file> -print

The <date point file> is used as a reference of its inode contents for a date reference. All files newer than that are found.

By using a bang (!) in front of the switch you can invert the function meaning you will list all files older than the reference.

eg.

Code:
 
find . ! -newer <file> -print

Hope that helps.

Using commands you can also tweak the inode contents of your date reference file to produce a date/time of your choosing.
 

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TV_SPLIT(1p)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					      TV_SPLIT(1p)

NAME

       tv_split - Split XMLTV listings into separate files by date and channel.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_split --output TEMPLATE [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read XMLTV listings and split them into some number of output files.  The output file chosen for each programme is given by substitutions
       on the filename template supplied.  You can split listings by time and by channel.

       The TEMPLATE is a filename but substitutions are applied: first %channel is replaced with the id of a programme's channel, and then
       Date::Manip substitutions (which broadly follow date(1)) are applied based on the start time of each programme.	In this way each programme
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