On Sun, 2004-07-18 at 22:16 +1000, James Gregory wrote: > Hi all, > > I just tried to use the 'find' command to locate for me all files on a > filesystem that were modified on a given date. I have just discovered > that this is a moderately difficult problem. 'man find' tells me that > there are atime, ctime and mtime options but they only let me specify > time relative to today in hours. I can see that I potentially could > construct a find query with these tools and judicious use of -a and '!', > but that can't be the simplest way.
So far I've got this: find . -printf "%Cd-%Cm-%CY\t%h/%f\n" | grep '^06-07-2004' | perl -pe 's/^.*\t//;' Which is *hideous*. Tell me there's a better way. And I don't mean by substituting 'sed' for 'perl -pe'. James. -- James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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