list files created yesterday

[Pando]

Hello All,

I would like to ask how can i list files created yesterday using a single command line.

Thanks.

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
Check whether this helps you.
Today is Oct 13 so for yesterday i will do like this.

# ls -al | grep "Oct 12"

Regards,

[Bharat Katkar]

And also for recursive list you need to do

# ls -Ral | grep "Oct 12"

Hope that helps.
Regards,

[Muthukumar_5]

We can do with find command as,


find / -type f -name "*" -exec ls -al {} \; | grep 'Oct 12'

HTH.

[Pando]

Dear All,

thanks for your quick reply.
Am thinking of putting the date in variable.
Is that possible?

[Bharat Katkar]

Hi,
It's possible.

# var1="Oct 12"
# ls -Ral | grep "$var1"

Regards,

[Stefan Schulz · Accepted solution]

Hi Fernando,

if you need a scriptable solution where your "yesterday" is calculated automaticaly try this:

ls -la | grep "$(TZ=$(date +%Z)+24; date '+%b %e')"

I got the datecalculation from some other threads here. It is a common problem to calculate yesterdays date. Check for example this thread:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=541033

Hope this helps

Regards Stefan

[john korterman]

Hi,

unix does not store any information about the creation time of files. It does, however, store the time of the last change, the time of the last read, and the time of the last change of the inode of the file, but that is all.
You probably have to maintain a database of the creation time yourself - sorry.

regards,
John K.

[Fred Ruffet]

In a more generic may, you can touch a file to set it a date of midnight, and use find with -newer option

/tmp>touch -t $(date +%m%d)0000 ref_file
/tmp>find . -newer ref_file
.
./pdenq.log
./.oracle
./.oracle/s#7484.1
./export_test.log
./dhcpfifo.root
./dhcpfifo.any
./analyze.20041013.dev_dev.7701.log
./analyze.20041013.test_test.7700.log


Regards,

Fred

[Hein van den Heuvel]

As observed, there is no creation time recorded as such, you'll have to pick between 'mtime' modification time (the one displayed by ls -l and 'ctime' attribute change time. The 'atime' (ls -ul) is probably not usefull as a simple grep jiggle that.

If 'yesterday' means 'withing the last 24 hours' then it becomes a trivial problem:

find . -mtime -1

Otherwise the suggestion above will help.

Hein.