search by date
norgaard at locolomo.org
Wed Jan 11 04:39:41 PST 2006
Chris Collins wrote:
> Can somebody tell me how to search for files by the date they were created.
> Maybe somebody has a script they have created and would like to share. I
> have about 5000 files in different directories I would like to backup crated
> prior to 2003 and then delete. Any ideas?
Unfortunately if you try to specify a specific age this is not in Unix
time but in 24h intervals relative to when find was started.
The -newer option on the other hand allows you to find all files
created/accessed/modified since the times of a given file.
The idea is that if you do incremental backups, you stamp a file in the
backup dir and use that as reference to find which files have been
modified since last backup.
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