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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Find the files based on date from filelist Post 303039240 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 26th of September 2019 07:33:37 PM
Old 09-26-2019
The content of the file list, i.e., filenames, has no associated filesystem metadata for any of the files named in your text file. You would have use the stat command on each one of the filenames in the text file.
And you will have to use epoch times ( seconds since Jan 1 1970).
Code:
when=1569540363
while read filename
do
  [ $(stat --format=%Y filename) -gt $when  ] && echo $filename
done < textfile

It is easier with a reference file that has been set to a specified mtime file with the touch command, shell does file time comparisons ( -ot, -nt ):
Code:
[ $file -nt $reference_filename ] && echo $filename

Can you create the text file list first with both a filename and a filetime (in epoch seconds) for each line in the text file? And then read that?
 

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DATETIME.SETTIMESTAMP(3)						 1						  DATETIME.SETTIMESTAMP(3)

DateTime::setTimestamp - Sets the date and time based on an Unix timestamp

       Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
public DateTime DateTime::setTimestamp (int $unixtimestamp) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style DateTime date_timestamp_set (DateTime $object, int $unixtimestamp) Sets the date and time based on an Unix timestamp. PARAMETERS
o $object -Procedural style only: A DateTime object returned by date_create(3). The function modifies this object. o $unixtimestamp - Unix timestamp representing the date. RETURN VALUES
Returns the DateTime object for method chaining or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 DateTime.setTimestamp(3) example Object oriented style <?php $date = new DateTime(); echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; $date->setTimestamp(1171502725); echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; ?> Procedural style <?php $date = date_create(); echo date_format($date, 'U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; date_timestamp_set($date, 1171502725); echo date_format($date, 'U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; ?> The above examples will output something similar to: 1272508903 = 2010-04-28 22:41:43 1171502725 = 2007-02-14 20:25:25 NOTES
Using the Unix timestamp format to construct a new DateTime object is an alternative when using PHP 5.2, as shown in the example below. Example #2 DateTime.setTimestamp(3) alternative in PHP 5.2 <?php $ts = 1171502725; $date = new DateTime("@$ts"); echo $date->format('U = Y-m-d H:i:s') . " "; ?> The above example will output something similar to: 1171502725 = 2007-02-14 20:25:25 SEE ALSO
DateTime.getTimestamp(3). PHP Documentation Group DATETIME.SETTIMESTAMP(3)
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