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

[Afan Pasalic]

  On 9/10/2010 1:07 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote:
> $ date -d "10 days ago"
> Tue Aug 31 13:06:42 CDT 2010

I'm not quite sure how to use this within the code?


>
> 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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