Timeline for How to search for a specific string in files from a specific date?
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
7 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 11, 2019 at 13:59 | comment | added | Toby Speight |
Just a warning that most filesystems don't store a creation date - -ctime works on the last inode changed time, which will be updated e.g. when permission bits are changed.
|
|
| Feb 27, 2019 at 20:03 | history | edited | RalfFriedl | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed formatting
|
| Feb 27, 2019 at 19:58 | comment | added | hyperbole |
If files contain spaces (or new-lines) you can change the command to find . -name 'a[123]' -ctime 6 | sed -e "s/.*/'&'" | xargs grep -l 'JMS111' and the filenames will be passed to grep in tact.
|
|
| Feb 27, 2019 at 19:52 | comment | added | Jeff Schaller♦ |
consider directly calling -exec grep so that you don't break when filenames contain special characters (spaces, newlines)
|
|
| Feb 27, 2019 at 19:51 | history | edited | hyperbole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
more information about using -ctime
|
| Feb 27, 2019 at 19:45 | review | First posts | |||
| Feb 27, 2019 at 20:03 | |||||
| Feb 27, 2019 at 19:41 | history | answered | hyperbole | CC BY-SA 4.0 |