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# 1  
Old 12-02-2012
Find files with specific date
Dear all,

kindly i have some files with different dates i need to grep word from these files but i need to search in files with date 2012-12-02 not all files in this directory

do u have any command
# 2  
Old 12-02-2012
Code:
find /path/to/dir -type f -name "filename" -mtime -1 2>/dev/null | xargs grep -iw "word"

filename could be *.txt , *abc*txt etc.
-mtime -1 means modification(or creation time) less than 1 day
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Old 12-02-2012
The below will find all files in current directory that were created/last modified on given date and then will search in those files for any word.

Code:
 
ls -l | grep "Dec 12" | awk '{print $NF}' | xargs grep -l "word"

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# 4  
Old 12-02-2012
If file name has the pattern: 2012-12-02 then:-
Code:
find . -name "*2012-12-02*" -type f -exec grep -w "word" {} \;

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Old 12-03-2012
thanks alot for your contributions
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