On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:01 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > > Craig White wrote, On 04/02/2008 10:49 AM: > > > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > > > > > >> cd /tmp > > >> touch --date="March 20" test20 > > >> touch --date="March 21" test21 > > >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 > list1 > > >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test21 > list2 > > > ---- > > > nice...this is very elegant > > > > > > I need to file this away somewhere that I actually have a chance to find > > > this when I need it. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > Craig > > > > > > > and after seeing Mr. Haney's message I looked at the find man page a bit... > > > > find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 -not -newer test21 > > > > same list as I got from the diff |grep, but without the need to sed, and it > > _probably_ could be carefully combined with the -exec option of find to do the rm. > > I prefer xargs to -exec, since it executes the command in batches. Also, > since filenames may have spaces in them, it's a good idea to use -print0 > in the find and -null in the xargs. ---- I wouldn't expect file names in html directory to have spaces but definitely it's always worth considering. I don't much like single line complicated commands that achieve file deletions as the ultimate result - for obvious reasons. Craig
