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Old 05-19-2011
I guess this was the idea:
Code:
.... |xargs -I{} touch {} --no-create --date=11:11:11

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# 9  
Old 05-19-2011
Sorry, that's still not working, if I replace the "touch" command with "ls" then you can see the "No such file or directory" errors as shown below.

Edging ever closer though!

Code:
user@machine:~/datecheck$ ll
total 172
drwxr-xr-x  2 user user  4096 2011-05-19 17:16 ./
drwx------ 42 user user 12288 2011-05-19 15:09 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 user user     0 2011-05-19 11:11 test1
-rw-r--r--  1 user user     0 2011-05-19 17:16 test12
-rw-r--r--  1 user user     0 2011-05-19 17:16 test 13
user@machine:~/datecheck$ find . -xdev -type f -printf '%T+ %p \n' | grep -v 11:11:11 | cut -c32- | xargs -I {} ls {} 
ls: cannot access ./test12 : No such file or directory
ls: cannot access ./test 13 : No such file or directory
user@machine:~/datecheck$ find . -xdev -type f -printf '%T+ %p \n' | grep -v 11:11:11 | cut -c32- | cat
./test12 
./test 13

---------- Post updated at 06:37 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:23 PM ----------

Quote:
Code:
-printf '%T+ %p \n'

I think I've found the problem Smilie

It was a bug in my printf formatting the above should actually read:

Code:
-printf '%T+ %p\n'

Yes it was that pesky space between %p and \n which was causing the issues.

Testing continues!

Thanks for all the help so far everyone.
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