List all files added/modified on date

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How can I use the find command to list all files for example modified on april 9 2011.

Thank you,

Chris

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Good suggestions here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/158044/how-to-use-find-to-search-for-files-created-on-a-specific-date

and

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-finding-files-by-date/

I personally would use the -mtime option, but depending on your version of Linux/find, you may be able to use the options listed in the first link...

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Use ‘find’ to determine files modified yesterday

One possibility: build GNU 'find' on your box and use that instead of the stock 'find'.

Or, if AIX find has the -newer test, you could do something like this:

# midnight oct 7
touch -t 10070000 today.ref
# midnight oct 6
touch -t 10060000 yesterday.ref

find /dir -newer yesterday.ref -a \! -newer today.ref -print
rm today.ref yesterday.ref

Find files modified in an interval on unix

The arguments for the -mtime option to find are a little counter-intuitive. Basically, what you're asking for there is "show me everything that's older than two days ago, and younger than two days ago"... the '+' option is a little wonky (from find(1)):

When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two days ago.

For a single day range, you can just use -mtime 2, otherwise I suggest going to using -mmin and a bit of shell arithmetic to get where you want to go.

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