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Old 05-15-2008
Question How can i copy files by date last modifed range?
When I do a ls -lt I get a list of files by date modified from newest to oldest. I would like to be able to copy some files to another directory using a date last modified range (i.e. Apr 30 - May 13) How could I do this?

Thanks,
Joe
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Old 05-15-2008
find has an option in most versions to pick files by age, or you could simply note the first and last files in the range and pipe ls -t output to a sed script to pick out that range.
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Old 05-15-2008
You can also tell find to find files that are newer than one file.
Code:
find . -type f -newer timestamped_file -print

will print all the files that were modified since the last time timestamped_file was modified.

man find reveals all. Smilie
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 05-16-2008 at 08:23 AM.. Reason: added code tags
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Old 05-15-2008
I ended up using just adding a -exec cp {} ./mydir \; to the end of the find command and it worked like a charm. Thanks for help! Smilie
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Old 05-25-2008
hi
you can use find command with -mtime flag

like
find . -mtime (-n or n or +n) | xargs cp dirname

-n for files modified in last n days
n for files modified exactly on last nth day
+n fro files modifed before last nth day

Abhishek Gera
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