16.18 Listing Files You've Created/Edited Today
If your directory is full of files and you're trying to find out which
files you've made changes to (and created) today, here's how.
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Make a shell script that stores today's date in the shell's command-line
parameters.
Pipe the output of
ls -l
to an
awk
script.
In the
awk
script, put the month (which was the second word in the
date
output) into the
awk
string variable
m
.
Put the date into the
awk
integer variable
d
-use an integer
variable so
date
outputs like
#!/bin/sh set `date` ls -l | awk "BEGIN { m = \"$2\"; d = $3 } \$5 == m && \$6 == d && \$7 ~ /:/ {print}"
If your version of
ls -l
gives both the file's owner and group,
change - |
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