Extract file names based on dates [Shell]

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My test.txt looks like this

drwx------+  5 dc staff   170 Jan 19 00:17 stopwords.txt
drwxr-xr-x   4 dc staff   136 Feb 20 21:15 test.pl
-rw-r--r--   1 dc staff   845 Feb 26 00:09 test.txt
-rw-r--r--   1 dc staff   917 Feb 26 00:45 test1.txt

I want to Extract those files which are created 1 week before the current date (when the shell script is run)

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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Instead of parsing a text file with a directory contents, you could use find directly:

find <directory> -ctime +7

This will print all the files under <directory> that have been created more than 7 days ago.

For more information, please have a look at this related question.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Feb 27 '12 at 15:44

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Thanks for the link and your answer !! – Debaditya Feb 27 '12 at 15:57

Extract file names based on dates [Shell]

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