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Hi

I'd like to know if is it possible to find files given a certain modification date (say, 01-05-2006, that's 1st of May 2006)

I can calculate the days backward:

Code:

find / -ctime 23

but I wish to search by exact modification day


Thanks

Substitue mtime for ctime in your command.

mtime makes more sense than ctime because it considers the file last modification time instead of change of file status, but I still get the same results

I would express my question as:

How can I find files modified on 01-05-2006 on my computer?

Dunno if I understood your question right, but anyway try below.

Find no of days difference (Difference.Days=Current.Date-Search.Date [E.g, No.of.days.difference between 20060525 and 20060520 is 5]). Say you wanna search your file in a directory called "XXX" exactly 5 days before.

find XXX -mtime 5 -depth -type f

The above command will list you all files in XXX modified 5 days before.

Karthik

Yes, if I want to search files modified 5 days ago in my computer I type:

Code:

find / -mtime 5 2>/dev/null

the 2>/dev/null is just to prevent output about "Permission denied" directories

But, what if I want to search for files modified on 01-01-1999 ?

See the section in the FAQ on date manipulation.