How to get the files which has modified date as yesterday and before?


 
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Old 06-12-2012
Java How to get the files which has modified date as yesterday and before?

Hi All,

Can you please help me to get only the files which has the modified date as yesterday and before?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Velava.S
# 2  
Old 06-12-2012
use this
Code:
find <file_pattern> -type f  -mtime +1 2> <error_log> |xargs -I FLNAME echo FLNAME

# 3  
Old 06-12-2012
Thanks for your reply!

It is not working as expected and getting error.

Could you please provide the comand clearly?

I need to look the folder \devctr\srcfiles and listed down the files.

Regards,
Velava
# 4  
Old 06-12-2012
Code:
find /devctr/srcfiles/* -type f  -mtime +1 2> error.log |xargs -I FLNAME echo FLNAME

# 5  
Old 06-12-2012
It is not listing all the files which has the modified date as yesterday. Actually the server resides machine has the PST timings. So if i run this command now i am not getting all the files which has the modified date of yesterday and b4.

Output - /devctr/srcfiles/TEST_FILE.out####1950699937

modified date of this file is - 06/10/2012 1:10:30 AM

The Folder contains below list of files:

i
Code:
st-dev116::/devctr/srcfiles/common>>ls -ltr /devctr/srcfiles
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin  103329 Jun 10 00:10 TEST_FILE.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin 19280349 Jun 10 09:12 TEST_FILE1.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin     301 Jun 10 11:31 hello.ksh
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin 13163422 Jun 10 16:31 TEST_FILE3.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin 21836039 Jun 10 16:32 TEST_FILE4.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin 29669732 Jun 10 16:33 TEST_FILE5.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin  123277 Jun 10 16:34 TEST_FILE6.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin       0 Jun 10 22:30 TEST_FILE7.out####1950699937
-rw-r--r--   1 b2binta1 b2badmin 3122149 Jun 11 22:22 TEST_FILE_TODAY.out####1950699937

Thanks & Regards,
Velava.S

Last edited by Franklin52; 06-12-2012 at 05:38 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples
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