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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf)
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Subject: Re: Finding files modified "today" (Was: Awk with passed parameters)
Keywords: awk bsd shell
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Date: 27 Mar 91 02:18:43 GMT
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/*
 * discussion re: finding all files modified today.
 * subdebate regarding performance of test unless it's a shell builtin...
 */

One way to accomplish finding all files modified today is to go by a
timestamp file which was touched at midnight, and use
"find . -newer <timestampfile> -print | xargs /bin/ls -<lsopts>..."
or whatever is most optimal.

I think find(1) needs yet more improvement, most of all in the department
of time granularity (if you can call a day "granular" -- seems like a large
boulder to me...).  Oh, and a -ctime option would be nice...