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Re: searching for files

Apr 28th, 2006

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Originally Posted by problems

i would like to find files that have been modified during a month. lets say i am type in 2004 06
it will find files in the month of june.
i know using l -la lista all the files and thier attrbutes. and one of thier attributtes is last modified time. can i somehow search for files using the modified time attrbute of the file

is there also a way to convert a numberic date to a textual date e.g. like
06 2006 to jun 2006

need help urgently

thanks

You can use 'case' function to name the month parameter like
LEts suppose inside the script
$1-06
$2 - 2006
case $1 in
01)) month="Jan" ; break;;
02)) month="Feb" ; break;;
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and then grep for the 'month' and year variable from the ls output.

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