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Old 10-22-2009
Find file with exact access date
Hi

I have to write command that find the files/dirs in the directory with access date equal to timestamp. ie or to be more precise I need to find files which are not equal to given timestamp

drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle oinstall 4096 May 31 2007 tmp

so need to have something like

find . * atime <> "2007/05/31 8:46:26" (this just an idea)

Thank you
Last edited by zam; 10-22-2009 at 09:26 PM..
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Old 10-23-2009
Have you searched this forum, we discussed a lot like this already, Anyway,

1. Create a dummy file using touch with specified time
Code:
touch -d "Fri Oct 23 08:40:39 IST 2009" /tmp/tt

2. find files newer than that,

Code:
find -anewer /tmp/tt

But how will you find older than that, let us see the other responses..
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Old 10-23-2009
Thanks a lot it's just what I am after !
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