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as per what methyl said it would be the best way. but i am not able execute whole of it.

wht i can do for u from above understanding is given below:-

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if u manually find out which is the 1st file of 2010 then u can use the below command succesfuly
 find . -newer ~/name_of_the_1st_file_2010

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