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Date:      Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:48:27 -0600
From:      "Harley D. Eades III" <hde@foobar-qux.org>
To:        chris@collins-ca.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: search by date
Message-ID:  <43C4AA3B.5090008@foobar-qux.org>
In-Reply-To: <fbf53e700601102105r455e1796s62da365ee5b93fd8@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <fbf53e700601102105r455e1796s62da365ee5b93fd8@mail.gmail.com>

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Chris Collins wrote:

>Hello
>
>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?
>
>Thanks
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I am not sure this is possible, due to the filesystem not storing
the creation date in the inode.

Cheers
Harley



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