[OT]: Ho wto find files created on a specific date

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:01 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
> Craig White wrote, On 04/02/2008 10:49 AM:
> > On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
> > 
> >> cd /tmp
> >> touch --date="March 20" test20
> >> touch --date="March 21" test21
> >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 > list1
> >> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test21 > list2
> > ----
> > nice...this is very elegant
> > 
> > I need to file this away somewhere that I actually have a chance to find
> > this when I need it.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Craig
> > 
> 
> and after seeing Mr. Haney's message I looked at the find man page a bit...
> 
> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 -not -newer test21
> 
> same list as I got from the diff |grep, but without the need to sed, and it 
> _probably_ could be carefully combined with the -exec option of find to do the rm.

I prefer xargs to -exec, since it executes the command in batches. Also,
since filenames may have spaces in them, it's a good idea to use -print0
in the find and -null in the xargs.

poc