[Wylug-discuss] Copy files by date

Smylers smylers at stripey.com
Wed Jan 25 20:53:04 UTC 2012


linux at sh2515.plus.com writes:


> 1st thanks all for replying.
> 
> [Aaron Crane writes]:
> 
> > Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > FreeBSD's date command doesn't have --date
> >
> > True.  But there's a workaround in this case:
> >
> > $ /bin/date -v -1d +'%F'
> > 2012-01-24
> 
> 2nd how would I use this code against a file date?

Exactly as the command I gave earlier which finds files newer than the
start of today, but substituting Aaron's date command from above which
gives yesterday's date instead.

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