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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:18:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Oliver Crow <ocrow@skymind.com>
To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
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Subject: Re: Need a "find / -newer date_string" type of program...
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On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> 	Does anyone know of a "find"-like program that has a "find all
> files newer than a specified date" option?  This would be very similar to
> find's -newer file "newer than file" option, but I want to specify a date
> instead of a file.

You can use 'touch' to turn a date into a file (so to speak).
To find files newer than yesterday, for example:

touch -t 200011160000 /tmp/timefile 
find . -newer /tmp/timefile
rm /tmp/timefile


Oliver



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