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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Listing files bet. two specified dates
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.085732.336@am.sublink.org>
Date: 27 Oct 90 08:57:32 GMT
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In <1990Oct24.181321.23205@dg-rtp.dg.com> rice@dg-rtp.dg.com (Brian Rice) writes:
	...
>find $1 -mtime -$2 -print > /tmp/mbetween.$$
>find $1 -mtime -$3 -print >> /tmp/mbetween.$$
>sort /tmp/mbetween.$$ > /tmp/mbetween2.$$
>uniq -u /tmp/mbetween2.$$
>rm -f /tmp/mbetween.$$ /tmp/mbetween2.$$

I don't see how this can work as is (to follow this approach, you'd have
to place the sorted outputs of the two find's into two separate files,
then use comm on these files, etc), and anyway this is simpler:

	find $1 -mtime +$2 -mtime -$3 -print

since '+$2' means 'MORE than $2 days ago' just as '-$3' means 'LESS
than $3 days ago'.  Anyway, I agree that the date arithmetic's harder.
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