find command

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Aug2007 16:08, Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
| find . -name "url*.0" -mtime "Apr" | wc -l
| 
| find: invalid argument `Apr' to `-mtime'
| 
| I am looking out for the month of Apr only so how would the command -mtime
| look like

The -mtime option takes _days_, not a date. Figure out how many days ago
01may2007 was, and how many days ago 01apr2007 way. Eg:

  $ date +%j                    # today
  241
  $ date -d 2007-05-01 +%j
  121
  $ date -d 2007-04-01 +%j
  091

So April lies between 120 and 150 days ago. So:

  find . -name "url*.0" -mtime +120 -mtime -150

See "man date" and "man find" for details.

Cheers,
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