Find files within a specific date range.
I have to admit google was indeed my friend and I found a great article which did the business at http://my.galagzee.com/2009/02/23/unix-shell-find-files-by-a-date-range/
Essentially I needed to transfer some nmon files from a remote server to my Sun workstation for just one specific week, from 02/04/2010 to 09/04/2010. On the remote server I did;
touch -t 201004020000 range_start touch -t 201004092359 range_end |
Then using the following find command I was able to list all the files I needed and scp them over.
find /nmonstats -type f -newer range_start ! -newer range_end -ls |
Nice.
As a side note, we can get yesterday’s date using:
date -d '1 day ago' +%Y%m%d |
To find the last working day we can use:
DAY_OF_WEEK=`date +%w` if [ $DAY_OF_WEEK == 1 ] ; then LOOK_BACK=3 else LOOK_BACK=1 fi yesterday=`date -d "$LOOK_BACK day ago" +'%Y%m%d'` |
