On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 23:46:38 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > Will aim to ask this simply enough. > is there an option for the ls command allowing you to set the date window > you are searching? > For example, list only the items added on a certain series of days?
Others have recommended find(1) and that's a valid solution. It's very powerful and worth learning. I also have a wiki page for it: <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind> If you really want to do it with ls(1) and not find(1), you'll need to perform a multiple-step, manual process: ls -lt > /tmp/list Open /tmp/list in a text editor. Find the first file you want to keep, and delete every line above it. Find the last file you want to keep, and delete every line below it. Save and exit. At this point, /tmp/list will contain an "ls -l" listing of all the files you want, sorted by modification time. If you want anything more complex than that, find(1) is the right tool for the job.
