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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Scripting: Copy Files with Today's date Post 302737283 by Corona688 on Wednesday 28th of November 2012 04:10:15 PM
Old 11-28-2012
Your version of find doesn't have the GNU -daystart extension.

Well, there's always the touch trick. Create a file of an exact timestamp, then find all files newer than it.

Code:
 # Today's month, day, and year, with all-zeroes for midnight in 24-hour time
touch -t $(date +"%Y%m%d0000") /tmp/$$
find /path/to/folder -name 'file_*.lis' -newer /tmp/$$ |
while read FILE
do
        echo "$FILE was modified today"
done

rm -f /tmp/$$

 

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grep-changelog [options] [CHANGELOG...] DESCRIPTION
grep-changelog searches the named CHANGELOGs (by default files matching the regular expressions ChangeLog and ChangeLog.[0-9]+) for entries matching the specified criteria. At least one option or file must be specified. This program is distributed with GNU Emacs. OPTIONS
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