[ILUG] find syntax question

[P at draigBrady.com]

P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Justin MacCarthy wrote:
> 
>>
>> What is the syntax for "modified in month mm, year yyyy" in find
>> e.g. the -mtime syntax
> 
> 
> Hmm, I'm not sure there is a direct way.
> You could try the following (untested) script

OK tested (you may want to check files on the first
and last days of the month are caught correctly):

#!/bin/sh

month=$1
year=$2
if [ "$month" = "12" ]; then
     next_year=`expr $year + 1`
     next_month=1
else
     next_year=$year
     next_month=`expr $month + 1`
fi
now=`date +%s`
start=`date --date="$year-$month-01 UTC" +%s`
end=`date --date="$next_year-$next_month-01 UTC" +%s`
start_days_ago=`expr \( $now - $start \) / 86400`
end_days_ago=`expr \( $now - $end \) / 86400`
find -mtime -$start_days_ago -mtime +$end_days_ago -maxdepth 1

-- 
Pádraig Brady - http://www.pixelbeat.org
--- Following generated by rotagator ---

Quickly search word list for prefix
   look prefix
Highlight occurances of word in word list
   grep --color word /usr/share/dict/words
Lookup word in online dictionaries/info
   gnome-dictionary ireland
--