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# 1  
Old 03-06-2012
List of Files which are Greater then a specific date
A newbie question...

I need to get a list of the Files and folders which are greater then a specific date. I want write the output to a Text file.

What I know
PHP Code:
ls -lrt 
gives me list of all the files ordered by date. Also
PHP Code:
ls > fileName 
will write the results to a text file.

Please help
# 2  
Old 03-06-2012
One trick to doing this is to create a file of the right date and find files newer than it.

Code:
touch -t YYYYMMDDhhmmss /tmp/$$
find /path/to/folder -type f -newer /tmp/$$
rm -f /tmp/$$

If you meant greater as in older, then '!' -newer /tmp/$$
# 3  
Old 03-06-2012
Code:
cd /directory/you/want
# touch -t [specific date does here as YYYYMMDD0000]
# example for march 5 2012 at midnight
touch -t 201203050000 dummy
# complete listing with dates so you can verify file dates
find .  -newer dummy -exec ls -l > textfile
# just filenames
find .  -newer dummy > short_textfile

# 4  
Old 03-06-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
Code:
# complete listing with dates so you can verify file dates
find .  -newer dummy -exec ls -l > textfile

I am getting the following error when I run the above find command.

find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.
# 5  
Old 03-06-2012
What's your system?
# 6  
Old 03-07-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
What's your system?
I think it is AIX Version 6.1
# 7  
Old 03-07-2012
Hmm. If it doesn't have -newer that's annoying, but you can kludge around that by using flags in the shell.

Code:
find . -type f |
while read LINE
do
        [ "$LINE" -nt dummy ] && echo "$LINE is newer than dummy"
done

Unfortunately this isn't as efficient.
 
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