File Dates
 

What would the best way to be to get the file dates of files in the current directory through script? I want to archive all files older then say 30 days, and im not sure the best way to do it. any suggestions?

There are many way

That will display all files in current directory recursivlly that have been modified one month ago (and before)

yeah i had ideas like that, but how do i get at each file, to move it say into my backup directory?

could i use find and tar in conjuction say to archive all files 30 days or older?

something like

tar cv find -mtime 30

or something similar?

Try: tar cfv archive.tar `find -mtime 30`

update the time with 'touch' see time with 'ls -l'