08-31-2004
find command not giving file names accord. to timestamps
Currently iam working on solaris environment,
Iam using find command to get list of all files between any two given dates. But the find command is not listing files accord. to timestamp. I tried using -exec option as -exec ls -ltr {} \;
Still the files are not listed according to timestamp..
Can anyone help me on this..
find . -type f -name '*xyz*' -newer start.file ! -newer end.file
-exec ls -ltr {} \;
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