Re: Is there another way to find a file that was created|modified|accessed before a certain time?

[Tavian Barnes]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 15:00, Jeff Silverman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I would like to get a list of all of the files modified between 2 dates.  I
> see that there is a -newermt DATE predicate, which works as documented and
> which is half the problem.  But I do not see an -oldermt DATE predicate.
> In reading the archives, I see that there was a discussion of a -mbefore
> predicate, but it isn't recognized in find version 4.6.0.225-235f in ubuntu
> 19.10.
>
> The best workaround that I have seen is to use the ddiff command in the
> dateutils package, and use that with the -mtime N predicate. Is there a
> better solution?  Seems like a kludge to me.

You can get the effect of -oldermt DATE with -not -newermt DATE.  If
you care about the exact boundaries then you'll have to increase DATE
by a nanosecond or so.

> Thank you
>
> Jeff