This won't work perfectly .. but you can sort by month like this :
find /tmp -daystart -ctime +4 -ctime -36 -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -k 6
change the arg to sort, and it will sort on a different column of the output.
Aaron
"Brandon W. Beasley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, how would I then sort the results by date. in other words, I'd like
> to have a chronologically ordered list of files between certain dates.
>
> thanks
>
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> > From: Joseph W. DeVincentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: finding all files created btwn certain dates
> > Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 12:41 PM
> >
> > > How can I get a recursive directory list of all files created between
> > > certain dates (e.g. 10/1/98 - 11/1/98) - it's a linux box - seems I'd
> use
> > > find or ls, but what parameters do I use.
> >
> > You would use find. Find is quite versatile, but also a bit confusing if
> > you've never used it before, or even if you have. :-) You would want to
> do
> > something like:
> >
> > find some/path -daystart -ctime +4 -ctime -36 -print
> >
> > Find divides its argument list into two parts; all the directory names
> > you want it to search in first, followed by all the options,
> restrictions,
> > and commands you want to give it.
> >
> > some/path is the name of the one or more directories you want find to
> > look in. Unless you tell it otherwise, it will recursively search
> > everything under those directories. If you are checking your entire
> > file system, add the -xdev option to make find not go into other
> > mounted filesystems, and list the top directory of each disk partition,
> > because otherwise find will do silly things like search /proc.
> >
> > -daystart makes find start the count for ctime at the beginning of the
> > day, rather than at the current time.
> >
> > -ctime +4 causes find to only consider files created more than 4 days
> ago.
> >
> > -ctime -36 causes find to only consider files created less than 36 days
> ago.
> > The -mtime and -atime options search modified times and access times,
> > similarly.
> >
> > -print prints the name of any file which has passed these checks.
> > You can instead put -ls here to get a long listing somewhat like ls -l.
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