Re: [OT]: Ho wto find files created on a specific date

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HI

All thanks to everyone who commented, appreciate the tips and its made
my task a lot easier.

Cheers again
Dan

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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