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Example above will recursively find files in current directory created/modified in 2010.
There is 1 alternative - vote for the best!
Find files in a specific date range - in this case, the first half of last year.
-newermt = modification time of the file is more recent than this date
GNU find allows any date specfication that GNU date would accept, e.g.
find . -type f -newermt "3 years ago" ! -newermt "2 years ago"
or
find . -type f -newermt "last monday"
This command finds all the files whose status has changed between the ctime of the older and newer .
Very useful if you can see from an ls listing a block of consecutive files you want to move or delete, but can't figure out exactly the time range by date.
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