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# 15  
Old 09-05-2006
followup
Hi everyone that contributed to my problems :-)

This is the part of the script:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

BIN=/interface/gunner

cd $BIN
sysMon=`date +%m`
sysDay=`date +%d`
sysYear=`date +%Y`
begDate='0001'
endDate='2359'
X=`./datecalc.sh -a $sysYear $sysMon $sysDay - 53`
Y=`echo $X$begDate|sed 's/ //g'`
Z=`echo $X$endDate|sed 's/ //g'`
touch -t $Y t1
touch -t $Z t2


find ./ -newer t1 \! -newer t2

I have the begdate and enddate so that I will be able to touch with 0001 and 2359.
However, the find command still return files outside a particular date. For example the above script should return only files created on the 14th of July.

find ./ -newer t1 \! -newer t2 still return some files created on 15th and sometimes it doesnt even return all the files created on 14th.

Thanks
Last edited by kayarsenal; 09-05-2006 at 12:07 PM..
# 16  
Old 09-05-2006
Hint :-

You can run find command with mtime option in 00:00 clock to calculate time correctly without any effort.

am try this hint & the result very good.

Try and confirm.
# 17  
Old 09-05-2006
Have you checked with -53 value on datecalc
X=`./datecalc.sh -a $sysYear $sysMon $sysDay - 53`
please echo it and check it what out put you are getting from the above command substitution.
# 18  
Old 09-05-2006
followup
I did. The echo outputs 2006 07 14 which looks fine. Now I intend to list only files created on this date.No more. In order to touch, I appened 0001 and 2359 to this. But when I use find newer command, I still get some wrong outputs.
Im thinking of using a cron job to run at 00:00 and for example

Code:
find ./ -mtime +55 \! -mtime +56

To find the files older than 55 days but not older than 56days.

I want your idea to work though.
# 19  
Old 09-05-2006
few old vesions of find command have trouble with using multiple -newer expressions in one command. If find doesn't find files that it should, try using multiple explicit -mtime expressions instead. They're not as precise, but they will work even on finds with buggy -newer handling.
This is universally known problem of find.
# 20  
Old 09-05-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by kayarsenal
Hi All,
I have a problem with using the find command.In my file structure,I need to find files that are exactly 14days old to execute an archive script.I used the "find . -mtime 14" command which displays 14day old files.The problem,however,is I get files that are more than 14days .For example today is Sep 4th,14day old files should be files on August 21st.I sometimes get files that are also on August 20th.How do I solve this issue?I need only 14day old files..NO MORE.

Thanks
PS: Find -mtime n apparently displays files that are n*24hours old.
I have a solution, but not using find or bash. I am using Python and the time,datetime modules
Code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import os,sys,time,datetime
today = datetime.date.today() 
delta = datetime.timedelta(days=14)
diff = today-delta
day,mth,yr = diff.day, diff.month, diff.year
for root,dir,files in os.walk("/home/user"):
        for fi in files:
                t = os.stat( os.path.join(root,fi) ).st_mtime
                y,m,d = time.localtime(t)[0:3]
                if yr == y and mth == m and day == d:
                        print "Found " , os.path.join(root,fi)

when run, it should give you exactly files that are 14 days old, no more.
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