'find' command - help req'd !

[Simon R Wootton]

I have a directory containing 80 sub-directories, each sub-dir contains hundreds of files.

From these directories, I want to find a list of files created between 17:20 and 17:30 on 23 June 2003, or if that's not possible, a list of files created on 23 June 2003 without the time criteria.

All help rewarded today !

Thanks in advance
Simon

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Simon,

How about something like this:

find /directory_name -exec ll {} \; |grep 'Jun 23' |grep '17:2[0123456789]'


Pete

[Andreas Voss]

Hi,

create two file for search criteria:

touch 06231720 /tmp/a
touch 06231730 /tmp/b

then do the find:

find -newer /tmp/a ! -newer /tmp/b

Regards

[Jean-Louis Phelix]

Hi,

You should first create 2 dummy files with timestamps :

$ touch -t 06231720 ffirst
$ touch -t 06231730 flast

Then use :

find . -newer ffirst ! -newer flast

Regards

[James R. Ferguson]

hi Simon:

Create with 'touch' two "reference" files:

# touch -amt 06231719 /tmp/ref1
# touch -amt 06231730 /tmp/ref2

# cd dir
# find . -newer /tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /tmp/ref2

Regards!

...JRF...

[Simon R Wootton]

Thankyou people - problem solved !!!!

Simon

[Elena Leontieva]

Simon,

Try this:
touch -t 0623172003 /tmp/t1
touch -t 0623173003 /tmp/t2
find . -newer /tmp/t1 ! -newer /tmp/t2 -print
rm /tmp/t[12]

This is from UNIX Power Tools.

Elena.

[Michael Kelly_5]

Simon,
a word of warning, unix does not store the creation date/time for files. It stores the modification and last access times for the file and the modification time for the inode.
If any of the files you are interested in were modified after 17:30 then Andreas' method will not list them.
If you are confident that the inode details have not changed since the files were created then you can use Andreas' method but change -newer to -newercm

HTH,
Michael.