topic Re: find files between certain time ranges in Operating System - HP-UX

find files between certain time ranges

allanm77 — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:29:48 GMT

Hi!

I need a way to find files between certain times within the same day.

Lets say I want to find out - between 4pm and 5pm which files got modified?

Thanks,

Allan.

Re: find files between certain time ranges

Pete Randall — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:36:58 GMT

Use the find command in combination with the touch command. First touch two files with your starting and ending times (man touch). Then run find using those reference files for comparison.

find /dir -newer startfile ! -newer endfile (man find for details)

Re: find files between certain time ranges

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:37:39 GMT

Hi:

This has been asked hundreds of times, but here's one way: Touch two reference files, for example:

# touch -amt 07121600.00 /tmp/ref1

# touch -amt 07121700.00 /tmp/ref2

# find . -xdev -type f -newer /tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /tmp/ref2 -print

Of course, if you are using the GNU 'find' you have more granular arguments like '-mmin'. Then too, Perl can do this without the need for temporary files, too!

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: find files between certain time ranges

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:40:12 GMT

Hi (again) Allan:

By the way, please evaluate your other posts:

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/Perl-or-shell-script/td-p/4819163

...JRF...