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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to find all files modified from midnight (i.e. from midnight (00:00:00)) of current date? Post 302930956 by Don Cragun on Thursday 8th of January 2015 08:36:33 PM
Old 01-08-2015
I did!

Did you look at the touch man page to see how to create a file with a given timestamp? Did you look at the find man page to see how the -newer file primitive can be used to find files newer than a given timestamp?

This is the Shell Programming And Scripting forum (not the UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers forum), so I assumed that you just needed a couple of pointers in the right direction.

Try:
Code:
touch -t $(date +%Y%M%D0000) start_time_file
find directory_pathname -newer start_time_file

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See correction in later post. The date format string is wrong.

Last edited by Don Cragun; 01-08-2015 at 11:02 PM.. Reason: Note mistake.
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TOUCH(1)							   User Commands							  TOUCH(1)

NAME
touch - change file timestamps SYNOPSIS
touch [OPTION]... FILE... DESCRIPTION
Update the access and modification times of each FILE to the current time. A FILE argument that does not exist is created empty, unless -c or -h is supplied. A FILE argument string of - is handled specially and causes touch to change the times of the file associated with standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a change only the access time -c, --no-create do not create any files -d, --date=STRING parse STRING and use it instead of current time -f (ignored) -h, --no-dereference affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the timestamps of a symlink) -m change only the modification time -r, --reference=FILE use this file's times instead of current time -t STAMP use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time --time=WORD change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivalent to -a WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to -m --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Note that the -d and -t options accept different time-date formats. DATE STRING
The --date=STRING is a mostly free format human readable date string such as "Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:21:42 -0800" or "2004-02-29 16:21:42" or even "next Thursday". A date string may contain items indicating calendar date, time of day, time zone, day of week, relative time, rela- tive date, and numbers. An empty string indicates the beginning of the day. The date string format is more complex than is easily docu- mented here but is fully described in the info documentation. AUTHOR
Written by Paul Rubin, Arnold Robbins, Jim Kingdon, David MacKenzie, and Randy Smith. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report touch translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/touch> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) touch invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 TOUCH(1)
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