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

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:36 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
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I wouldn't expect file names in html directory to have spaces but
definitely it's always worth considering.

I don't much like single line complicated commands that achieve file
deletions as the ultimate result - for obvious reasons.

Craig