On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Mr O <notanathe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ls -ltr shows creation date from oldest to newest but can I narrow that down > and say only print the last 30 days changes? What about a recursive search? > How about a variable showing only the last 14 days or 7 days? How about > narrowing down to a specific date after finding what was needed? Use find instead of ls: # all files, recursively, created within the past 30 days find . -ctime -30 Naturally, 'man find' will be of great help. :) > Next, could I take that output and drop it on the command line so I can then > mv, rm, cp, or more to those files only? There are several ways to do this: # remove files created within the past seven days find . -ctime -7 | xargs rm find . -ctime -7 -exec rm \{} ; # my least favorite way For anything more complicated than a single statement, I prefer a for loop: for file in `find . -ctime -7`; do cp ${file} /somplace/ ln -s /someplace/${file} /someplace/else/${file} done HTH! Chris St. Pierre _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug