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Find files between 2 dates

I want to get every files that are between 2 date with this format : YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm

I have some constraints too : i can't write files even in /tmp, and i can't use find --newermt because it's an old server.

I tried to use awk without success :

ls -l  --time-style=long-iso | awk '{ if (mktime(gensub ("-", " ", $6) " " gensub (":", " ", $7) " 00") >= mktime(gensub ("-", " ", gensub (":", " ", "2014-08-26 12:30")) " 00") && mktime(gensub ("-", " ", $6) " " gensub (":", " ", $7) " 00") <= mktime(gensub ("-", " ", gensub (":", " ", "2014-08-26 12:30")) " 00")) print $8 }'

Thanks in advance !

Solution

  • I'd see if you can use stat with an appropriate format. On my (linux) system, print out the file name and the mtime with 

    stat --format=$'%n\t%y' *

    Then, to filter based on the mtime:

    stat --format=$'%n\t%y' * |
awk -F"\t" -v from="2014-08-01 00:00" \
           -v to="2014-09-01 00:00"   'from <= $NF && $NF <= to {NF--; print}'