list all files in the system which had a particular date

[MSwift]

I want to list all the files in the system which has the timestamp of May 17 on it. since it is the current year i am not worried about the year stamp. How would i do this?

Thanks

Mike

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Mike:

One way:

# touch -amt 05162359.59 /tmp/ref1
# touch -amt 05172359.59 /tmp/ref2

# find / -type f -newer /tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /tmp/ref2 -exec ls -ld {} +

Regards!

...JRF...

[MSwift]

Thanks Jrf

But this hogs the cpu on my nclass server with 8 cpu's and it still hangs, should i wrtite it some file?

Thx

Mike

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike:

> But this hogs the cpu on my nclass server with 8 cpu's and it still hangs, should i wrtite it some file?

Well of course it spins the processors! You ased for "all the files in the system" so we need to recursively search _everything_. Then for each file or directory 'find()' sees it must 'stat()' the entity and compare the 'mtime' to the reference values. This _does_ take some time.

Yes, I would redirect the output to a file and go get some coffee.

# find / -type f -newer /tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /tmp/ref2 -exec ls -ld {} + > /tmp/files_for_may17

Regards!

...JRF...