Find files older than 2003

[Jagadesh_2]

Hi,

Please let me know how to find files in a particular filesystem which is older than year 2003.

Thanks
Jagadesh

[Pete Randall]

Use the touch command to create a reference file with the proper date and then use find with the not newer option "! -newer".


Pete

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Since you are seeking for files older than 2003, you will get a year in "ls -l".

It doesn't show the year for files less than 6 months old.

Not sure of the syntax but try.

ls -l | awk '{if ($8<2003) print $0}'

[Alessandro Pilati]

Jagadesh,
Put there 2 rows in a script and launch it:

let days=`date +'%j'`+730
find /etc -mtime +$var -exec ll {} \+

Regards,
Alex

[Alessandro Pilati]

Sorry Jagadesh,
in the commands above I wrote /etc, instead of this put the path you want to check.

Rgds,
Alex

[Alessandro Pilati]

Vibor,
your command doesn't consider that in the 8th fiels of "ls -l" for files modified in the current year, the OS put the modification hour, and is not recursive ;-))

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

Good point,

Recursive is not a problem, we can simply use a loop or the -R option of ls.

But i have to check for date.

Gotcha,

Just in // of awk give a negation of : for the 8 field.

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

Hi,

just adding details to the first posting:

# touch 0101000003 myfile
# find /dilledaller -type f ! -newer ./myfile -exec ls -l {} \;


regards,
John K.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Yet another use for caljd.sh:

DAYS=$(( $(caljd.sh) - $(caljd.sh 1 1 2003) ))
find . -type f -mtime +${DAYS} -print

[Jagadesh_2]

Thanks for all your response.
touch -t 0301010000 /tmp/time02

nohup find /u04 ! -newer /tmp/newfile.txt -size +5000000c -exec ls -l {} \;

this works.

[Jagadesh_2]

thanks