find for an entire month

Koven · 07-25-2005, 09:20 AM

I want to know how can i use "find" to find some files created during a month. I know how can I get files from a day especifically but not during a month, i.e. all June.

Thanx for your time

damienduff · 07-25-2005, 11:09 AM

hmm... use -mtime or -atime
modifiied time or accessed time.

find /directory -mtime 1
#1 = 1 day

see "man find"

Koven · 07-25-2005, 02:12 PM

I need to find a period of n days how can i do it?

REgards

demian · 07-25-2005, 02:50 PM

Find files older than 20 days but not older than 50:

find . -mtime +20 -mtime -50

If you want to make this more userfriendly you probably need to use perl which has very good fuctions to calculate dates so that you can easily convert something like 'June 05' to the arguments you need.

Koven · 07-26-2005, 10:49 AM

Now I dont understand about an error I get when I use -exec like this...

find /myown/route -mtime +20 -mtime -50 -exec tar -cvf /another/route/test.tar {}\;

find missing argument to -exec.

Thanks for your Time.

Berhanie · 07-26-2005, 02:11 PM

It's complaining because you didn't leave a space after the '}'. But this isn't the way to do it, assuming you want to archive all those files from June. Try this:

Code:

find /your/path -mtime +20 -mtime -50 | tar -cf /path/to/dir/test.tar -T -

Koven · 07-26-2005, 08:56 PM

I'd like to know why that is note the way to do it. What's the main difference. I didn in a correct way like this...

find /path -mtime +m -mtime -n -exec tar -rvf /another/path {} \;

Thanks for your time.

Regards

Berhanie · 07-26-2005, 10:06 PM

ok, it'll work with the -r (append) option. Originally, you had a -c which would have overwritten test.tar each time. But, that wasn't my point. I was just thinking in terms of efficiency (calling tar each time you encountered a file, etc.)

[edit] Also take a look at the gzip man page under the section entitled "ADVANCED USAGE". (It's not your situation exactly, since you're not compressing.)