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Old 11-05-2010
grep date with copy command
how can i copy only those files with creation date less then 24 hours.
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Old 11-05-2010
Use find:
Code:
find /dir -type f -mtime -2 -print

Unix usually doesn't have a creation time, only access (atime), status change (ctime), and modification (mtime).
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