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

[Afan Pasalic]

  thanks


On 9/10/2010 1:18 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote:
> date -d allows fuzzy logic. To put it in your code:
>
> ~~snip~~
>
>        find log* -daystart -mtime $x -exec ls -l {} \;
>        DATE=$(date -d "$x days ago" -I)
>        tar cvfz file-${DATE}.tar.gz $(find ./ -daystart -mtime $x -name log\*)
> ~~snip~~
>
> Working from memory, anyway.
>
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
> Afan Pasalic wrote:
>>    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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