For the life of me I cannot remember the command to find files created in the year 2017. I know that there are numerous was but as I recall it was a 'find' command and possibly used '-mtime'.

Thanks in advance.

Entering linux find files year in Google Search returns the following page:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-based-on-year

which suggests:

for 2012 (modify as necessary).

The specifics for that would be in the manual page for find under -newerXY. In the above example, X is m to check the modification time and Y is t to reference a time string.

This is on CentOS 6.9 and fails.

is of little help to a newbie... I've already scoured Google and cannot find the prior solutons.

Entering find invalid predicate in Google Search returns the following page:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...-using-newermt

which suggests that your operating system may not support -newermt, in which case you can use -newer and compare the dates against two files for which you have set the modification dates.

Just a minor point, but *nix filesystems don't (usually) store create date
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The 'find' cmd allows you to specify which one you want to use.

Just to add some info, the ext4 filesystem's extended inodes do include crtime, which stores the file creation time.

Right. But it is of some help, and the goal is to move forward even if in small steps. What did the manual page show in regards to -newerXY for your CentOS 6.x? Your choices are limited to what the documentation on your machine shows.

If -newer is the only such option, then you'll have to touch two files with custom dates and then use -newer and \! -newer instead.

The backslash \ is there to escape the exclation mark ! so that it is passed to find instead of being processed by the shell. In the shell it is a special symbol that would cause other actions to be taken.

Re crtime on ext4 (only); yeah, also known as birthtime . See eg https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-empty-on-ext4 for a way of getting it.

AFAIK, very few if any std utils currently set or read this:
https://moiseevigor.github.io/softwa...nux-with-ext4/

But this server is a EXT3 system. I appreciate the help by man find is as helpful as telling a blind man that the 7-11 down on the corner on the left. Maybe he can smell the nachos. Bad example but hopefully you get my point.

I was once a prolific programmer. But with Linux and the plethora of command line switches make learning a struggle for me. Which ones work with others? Etc. I'm struggling. My newest server using Centos 6.9. I am trying to clean out all of the sites that have been hacked and used to build websites within web sites. Alibaba. They hide files everywhere.

That's what the manual pages are for. They are how you navigate the system. They are references to look up stuff in and are terse as references should be.

Sorry to hear that. Yes, once they are in they can and do hide files everywhere. Figure out how they got in ...

But once they have gotten in you have one option and one option only: backup your data again, backup your logs, reformat and do a fresh but locked down install of CentOS. What kind of recovery plan do you have on file?

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