Thinking more about the usefulness of the first, though if added, adding the 2nd operator would make sense.
It might be nice if the classification functionality of 'file' was more accessible in a find with some type of find -mtime -60 -mtype shell would find files newer than 60 days and with a "--mime-type" with 'shell' in the type (shell scripts seemed to be bunched under 'text/x-shellscript') The "-menc" would correspond to file's "-mime-encoding" type. Very often I want to search for something but only in my shell or perl scripts and likely within the past 'X' months, stringing everything together in a pipeline is certainly possible but awkward when what I really want to do is search for a string or function name in all shell scripts: (# has one failure due to spaces in filename) > grep -Pil 'trace.*\(\)' $(filetype shell) grep: Quick: No such file or directory grep: Launch-order.sh: No such file or directory attrSet disp_files_w_recursion.sh lineln masquerade2 n_unix_epock2date tran unix_epoch2date ----- Now if I want to add before a specific date?....ug...I'm not sure how'd I'd begin, but it certainly doesn't seem str8 forward. tnx... -l