search by date

Harley D. Eades III hde at foobar-qux.org
Tue Jan 10 22:48:38 PST 2006


Chris Collins wrote:

>Hello
>
>Can somebody tell me how to search for files by the date they were created.
>Maybe somebody has a script they have created and would like to share. I
>have about 5000 files in different directories I would like to backup crated
>prior to 2003 and then delete. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks
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I am not sure this is possible, due to the filesystem not storing
the creation date in the inode.

Cheers
Harley


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