Is there any way to find out changed file after some date in whole project code?

Question

see i am working in one BIG project source code Now i want to know which files are modified after some date.

Is there any command or any way to get that..

i have tried

# ls -R -l

but here it shows all file with last modified data but i want to filter this output by some data ...

so is there any way to do this in linux? is there any tool available for this?

What is the scm tool? Almost all version control tools comes with good query mechanisms — Jayan, Jan 24 '12 at 13:05
find has different options to provide list based on access dates — Jayan, Jan 24 '12 at 13:06

score 85 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 24 '12 at 11:36

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#set timestamp for file    
touch --date "2011-12-31" /tmp/foo
# Find files newer than 2011/Dec/31, in /some/files
find /some/files -newer /tmp/foo

answered Jan 24 '12 at 11:36

peko

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After a specific time: touch -d '2011-12-31 10:22' /tmp/foo – Ra. Jan 17 '14 at 16:51
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what is /tmp/foo? How can I do this: find files in this-directory that mmtime > this-date and save it as variable lst? Thank you – Ali Khosro Apr 26 '18 at 08:10
`/tmp/foo` is an arbitrary file that is just used to compare the date too. It is placed in `/tmp` as it is a temporary file. – thoni56 Feb 20 '23 at 10:33

score 36 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:04

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Use find command with mtime arguments: Some examples are here or here

For example, list files changed in last 7 days...

find / -type f -mtime -7

For fine grained search you may try -mmin argument. See an example discussed in another SE site: Find All files older than x minutes

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:04

Community

answered Jan 24 '12 at 13:08

Jayan

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The problem with mtime is that it's too coarse. If you have files modified 6 hours ago and 8 hours ago, you can't distinguish them with find. You'll need to use [peko's workaround](http://stackoverflow.com/a/8986162/111424). – Iain Samuel McLean Elder Jan 18 '14 at 14:14
This command gives the files modified 7*24 hours ago not those which got changed in last 7 days. – Jaydeep Ranipa Jul 03 '17 at 05:11
Is there away to to skip certain subfolders with a speficic keywords(s) stay "cache" and "log"? for example. ```find / -type f -mtime -7 -skip "cache,log" ?``` thanks. – Ahdee Jul 13 '17 at 02:14
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The example with `-mtime -7` does find all objects changed in the last 7 days. Not just 7*24 ago. – NoelProf Jan 30 '18 at 18:12

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 15 '22 at 09:48

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You should use find with -newerXY option.

All files modified after 2022-12-01 (inclusive):

find . -type f -newermt 2022-12-01

answered Dec 15 '22 at 09:48

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