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Old 02-01-2012
getting files between specific date ranges in solaris
hi !
how can i get files in a directory between certain date ranges ?
say all files created/modified between Jan24 - Jan31

thanks
# 2  
Old 02-01-2012
you can use the find command with the mtime option, you'll just have to do some calculations of how many days ago that is.

Code:
find /directorypath -mtime +1 -mtime -7

Padow
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Old 02-01-2012
What's your system? What's your shell? Different systems have different ways of dealing with dates.
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Old 02-01-2012
my shell is Ksh and iam on sun solaris 10.

is there a way to use dates instead of +/- days ?
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Old 02-01-2012
If you were on Linux I'd use GNU date to get epoch times from dates, find to print them, and awk to compare them, but Solaris doesn't have the first two.

Do you have Perl?
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Old 02-01-2012
Quote:
is there a way to use dates instead of +/- days ?
Yes.
One Shell method is to create two reference files with "touch". One dated the last second before the range, and one dated the first second after the range. Then use "find".
Code:
find /dir -type f \( -newer start_file -a ! -newer end_file \) -print

There is a similar approach using reference files and the little-known "ksh" Conditional Expressions "-nt" and "-ot" but it tends to be slower than "find".
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Old 02-01-2012
so if i want to search between 24th and 30th jan , I create two files one dated 23rh jan and one dated 31st jan n search ?
how do i created these files with touch ?
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