find files with specific name and specific date command returns wrong result

Question

I am using centos 7 if I want to find files that starts with the word image in the directory A

i issue the following command

  find  /A -name 'image*'

and in order to write the command that find files that have specific name and issued on specific date and let it be 25/10/2017 for example

Iam issuing the command

find -name 'image*' | ls -ali | grep 'Oct 25'

but it greps all files in the folder what is wrong in this command

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 29 '17 at 13:53

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You can use find to print the date of last modification:

find -name 'image*' -printf "%TD %p\n" | grep "^10/25"

or:

find -name 'image*' -ls | grep "Oct 25"

answered Oct 29 '17 at 13:53

Ipor Sircer

i want to move these files to new folder – oula alshiekh Oct 29 '17 at 13:57
"Please edit the question to limit it to a specific problem with enough detail to identify an adequate answer. Avoid asking multiple distinct questions at once" - https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask – Ipor Sircer Oct 29 '17 at 14:04

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '17 at 13:49

You command seems wrong, you probably missed the xargs:

find -name 'image*' | xargs ls -ali | grep 'Oct 25'

without xargs, the ouput of find is just thrown away and you take the ls -ali of the current directory, which is probably not what you want.

nevertheless find has options to add the date as a search criterion, not sure that's what you really need, but you may have a look

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