Hi David,
This is not my desktop, with my not having permission to add software.
I do thank you, and everyone else, for ideas.
Speaking personally though, one thing I learned from all the options sort
of underscores a long held stance of my own.
If one wanted a hand clapping program in Linux, you would likely end up
with three. one for the right, one for the left, and a third to make them
clap smiles.
At this stage, speaking personally, it might be faster for me to find the
article again creating a new file and name.
My main desktop uses DOS.
For me, I could locate this with a simple single command...and I have been
spoiled by the ease of ls -l when hunting through scores of things on my
Linux shell services.
Cheers all,
Kare
On Sat, 16 May 2026, David Wright wrote:
On Sat 16 May 2026 at 16:25:41 (-0400), Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Greg,
Thanks, I am aiming for solidity here.
I am using a screen reader.
The text editor wording is a bit confusing.
Also, because I create many text files in a given day, my goal is very
tight here, but it seems I cannot provide actual dates, just a number
of days window?
There is not a syntax for say the window of 12 may, say 5 days ago until
14 may, which would be 2 days ago?
if I follow using . provides my home directory, where my files are
stored, is that correct? This is not my desktop, but a service.
I do understand that I should write say "*.txt"
However I need to be sure I have corrected the mistake you noted,
should it be namef with the dash character?
Your extras with print seem profoundly complex.
My goal is clear text, that my screen reader can manage, when I use
its own review mode.
Does that make more sense?
My goals are very tight, as I want to locate a file I saved within
this small window, with screen output that my talking computer
manages.
I use a bash function for this task. I've attached it as some of the
lines are a bit long. I have it in my ~/.bashrc, making it always
available.
You can try it out by saving the attachment, and then typing:
$ bash -c '. ./find-between; find-between today yesterday ./ | less'
which will give you a list of recent files in this directory,
piped into less as there may be many files in the list.
The function is documented, as can be seen by typing:
$ bash -c '. ./find-between; find-between'
Usage: find-between timedate timedate top-of-trees ???
finds files under top-of-trees with modification timestamps between
the two timedates given (free format, in any order; hint: '2000-12-31
11:59'
is a simple format that works). The output is sorted by filename.
$
If you add the find-between file to your .bashrc, then you only have
to type the function name:
$ find-between
$ find-between today yesterday ./ | less
Obviously you would replace today and yesterday with real dates/times.
Their format is whatever is acceptable to date --d (see man date).
The order doesn't matter.
All files are listed, but it's a simple matter to grep the outout:
$ find-between today yesterday ./ | grep 'txt$' | less
though you lose the header line as it's unlikely to match:
From 2026-05-15 21:57:42-05:00 to 2026-05-16 21:57:42-05:00
20260516-081119.08 2136 .Xresources
[ ??? lots more filenames ??? ]
[Aside: replace the echo commands if they offend you.
I have msgerr and msgout functions in their place.]
Cheers,
David.
