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find files in a date range

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"
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find . -type f -newermt "2010-01-01" ! -newermt "2010-06-01"

flatcap · 2011-06-26 09:52:26 33
List all files in a folder in a git repository by last commit date

This lists all the files in a folder, then finds the commit date for them one by one, then sorts them from newest to oldest
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git ls-tree --name-only HEAD foldername/ | while read filename; do echo "$(git log -1 --format="%ci " -- $filename) $filename"; done | sort -r

fivestones · 2023-03-01 17:02:51 279
Get yesterday's date or a previous time

With this command you can get a previous or future date or time. Where can you use this? How about finding all files modified or created in the last 5 mins? touch -t `echo $(date -d "5 minute ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type f -newer me List all directories created since last week? touch -t `echo $(date -d "1 week ago" "+%G%m%d%H%M.%S")` me && find . -type d -cnewer me I'm sure you can think of more ways to use it. Requires coreutils package. Show Sample Output
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```
Sun May 31 18:36:28 MYT 2009
Mon Jun  1 07:36:28 MYT 2009
Mon Jun  1 16:33:28 MYT 2009
Tue Jun  2 10:36:28 MYT 2009
```
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date -d '1 day ago'; date -d '11 hour ago'; date -d '2 hour ago - 3 minute'; date -d '16 hour'

LrdShaper · 2009-06-01 10:41:56 9
Show the date of easter

ncal -e shows the date of Easter this year. ncal -e YYYY shows the date of Easter in a given year. ncal -o works the same way, but for Orthodox dates. Show Sample Output
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```
12 April 2009
```
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ncal -e

topher1kenobe · 2009-04-02 17:58:27 5
Prepend section dates to individual entries in a summary log file

Searches for dates on lines by themselves. Uses that date to prepend all rows that contain SEARCHSTRING with the date, until it reaches another line with a date by itself. This fixed an issue with a specific log export where there would be a date, followed by all of the entries for that date.
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gawk 'match($0, /^\s*([0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{2}\/[0-9]{4})\s*/, m) {prev_date=m[1]} /SEARCHSTRING/ {print prev_date, ",", $1 $2, ",", $3, "," $5}' inputfile.txt

jtopian · 2023-07-11 23:20:38 509
Show changed files, ignoring permission, date and whitespace changes

Only shows files with actual changes to text (excluding whitespace). Useful if you've messed up permissions or transferred in files from windows or something like that, so that you can get a list of changed files, and clean up the rest.
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git diff --numstat -w --no-abbrev | perl -a -ne '$F[0] != 0 && $F[1] !=0 && print $F[2] . "\n";'

lingo · 2009-08-19 05:07:58 9
find files in a date range

Example above will recursively find files in current directory created/modified in 2010.
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1

touch -t 201001010000 begin; touch -t 201012312359.59 end; find . -newer begin -a ! -newer end

unixmonkey22900 · 2011-06-22 20:09:05 4
Delete files sorted by dates. Delete all other files except latest N files.
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ls -lt | grep ^- | awk 'NR>=N {print $9}' | xargs rm -rf -i

clongbupt · 2015-02-10 06:29:24 8

a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output

FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.$[0-9]$\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' }

emphazer · 2018-05-14 14:27:41 237

Get the date for the last Saturday of a given month

This is a little trickier than finding the last Sunday, because you know the last Sunday is in the first position of the last line. The trick is to use the NF less than or equal to 7 so it picks up all the lines then grep out any empty lines. Show Sample Output
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```
28
```
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cal 04 2012 | awk 'NF <= 7 { print $7 }' | grep -v "^$" | tail -1

javidjamae · 2012-05-03 16:57:45 767

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