On Tuesday September 8 2009, Jim Cunning wrote:

I have a question for 'find' experts. I want to find all files between two specific dates, and was able to do it with -mtime, but wonder if there's an easier way to do it. I used:

find . -type f -daystart -mtime +LATER -a -mtime -EARLIER -exec ls -l {} \;

where LATER is 3 for 5 Sept 2009 and EARLIER is 6 for 2 Sept 2009, to find files modified between 3 and 4 September.

It works, but it feels cumbersome and the same values can't be used tomorrow to locate files for the same dates. Am I missing something obvious?

Well, it's a bit circuitous, but find has a -newer predicate that uses the mod time of a specific file as the time reference. This combined with the "touch" command's ability to set a file's mod time to an arbitrary date would allow you to write a script that creates a couple of temp files, touches them to the appropriate beginning and ending dates and uses find's -newer (and a negated -newer) to get the net effect you're looking for. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org