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[Steve Nelson]

On 11/23/05, Peter Grandi <pg_gllug at gllug.to.sabi.co.uk> wrote:

> pg_gllug> Great are the powers of 'date'(1)! :-)
>
> pg_gllug>   THEN="`date +'%s' -d 'last friday 17:37'`"; NOW="`date +'%s'`"
> pg_gllug>   find "$DIR" -mmin "`expr '(' \"$NOW\" - \"$THEN\" ')' / 60`"

I like the -d, --date=STRING form of date very much - thanks for
reminding me of that!

>   STAMP="`tempfile`"; trap "rm -f '$STAMP'" 0
>   touch -d 'last friday 17:37' "$STAMP"
>   find "$DIR" -newer "$STAMP"
>   rm -f "$STAMP"; trap 0

Yes that's similar to what I originally posted - touch a file using -t
and do a find -newer.  I like the way this is embeddable though.

Also because I spend lots of time in Solaris, I tend to forget the -d
options provided in GNU coreutils.  Very nice indeed.

S.
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