[Cialug] finding files with "find" command for specific date

Jeffrey Ollie jeff at ocjtech.us
Fri Sep 10 13:13:33 CDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net> wrote:
>  On 9/10/2010 1:07 PM, Jeff Chapin wrote:
>> $ date -d "10 days ago"
>> Tue Aug 31 13:06:42 CDT 2010
>
> I'm not quite sure how to use this within the code?

DATE=`date -d "10 days ago" +"%Y%m%d"`

Then $DATE will be something like "20100831"

-- 
Jeff Ollie


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