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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Select all files in a folder based on creation date (ls command) Post 302825569 by alister on Monday 24th of June 2013 03:39:32 PM
Old 06-24-2013
That's not a robust solution. What if there's a username or group named May or containing such a substring? It could trigger false positives. What if May occurs in the wildcard portion of abc*.txt? Another possible false positive. The format of the date in ls depends on locale. It may use 05 instead of May.

Then again, perhaps your suggestion is good enough for the OP's needs.

Regards,
Alister
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