Linux command to check new files in file system

Question

We have linux machine we would like to check what new files have been added between a certain date range.

I only have SSH access to this box and it's openSUSE 11.1

Is there some sort of command that can give me a list of files that have been added to the filesystem between say 04/05/2011 and 05/05/2011

Thanks

Regards Gabriel

Answer 1

There are bunch of ways for doing that.

First one:

start_date=201105040000

end_date=201105042359

touch -t ${start_date} start

touch -t ${end_date} end

find /you/path -type f -name '*you*pattern*' -newer start ! -newer end -exec ls -s {} \;

Second one: find files modified between 20 and 21 days ago:

find -ctime +20 -ctime -21

finds files modified between 2500 and 2800 minutes ago:

find -cmin +2500 -cmin -2800

And read this topic too.

Answer 2

Well, you could use find to get a list of all the files that were last-modified in a certain time window, but that isn't quite what you want. I don't think you can tell just from a file's metadata when it came into existence.

Edit: To list the files along with their modification dates, you can pipe the output of find through xargs to run ls -l on all the files, which will show the modification time.

find /somepath -type f ... -print0 | xargs -0 -- ls -l