[Cialug] finding files with "find" command for specific date

[Jeff Chapin]

$ date -d "10 days ago"
Tue Aug 31 13:06:42 CDT 2010


Afan Pasalic wrote:
>   next level question :-)
>
> I'm building bash script (first time in my life) to tar all files within 
> a same day to one file.
> right now I can list all files
>
> #!/bin/bash
> x=1
> while [ $x -le 7 ]
> do
>      find log* -daystart -mtime $x -exec ls -l {} \;
>      x=(($x+1))
> done
>
> my idea is to, instead current find line use something like
>      find log* -daystart -mtime $x -exec tar -zcf logs_DATE.tar.gz {} \;
> though I don't know how to find the date of the selected files?
>
> suggestions?
>
>
>
> On 9/10/2010 10:46 AM, Ken MacLeod wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Ken MacLeod<ken at bitsko.slc.ut.us>  wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jeffrey Ollie<jeff at ocjtech.us>  wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Afan Pasalic<afan at afan.net>  wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> find /path/to/files/log* -mtime 10
>>>>> I need all files for SPECIFIC day.
>>>>>           
>>> And also use -mtime -11 to restrict the time span to one day (less
>>> than 11 days, greater than 10).
>>>       
>> Ignore that.  - and + are only used for ranges.  The 10 didn't have a
>> + so it's exactly 10 days ago (with -daystart as Jeff mentioned).
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