On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 11:01 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
Craig White wrote, On 04/02/2008 10:49 AM:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 10:40 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
>
>> cd /tmp
>> touch --date="March 20" test20
>> touch --date="March 21" test21
>> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 > list1
>> find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test21 > list2
> ----
> nice...this is very elegant
>
> I need to file this away somewhere that I actually have a chance to find
> this when I need it.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
>
and after seeing Mr. Haney's message I looked at the find man page a bit...
find /opt/html/ -type f -newer test20 -not -newer test21
same list as I got from the diff |grep, but without the need to sed, and it
_probably_ could be carefully combined with the -exec option of find to do the rm.
I prefer xargs to -exec, since it executes the command in batches. Also,
since filenames may have spaces in them, it's a good idea to use -print0
in the find and -null in the xargs.
poc