kirankumar.techy@gmail.com wrote:
> I am trying to write a Korne Shell asking the user for a date and a
> directory and then search recursively in this directory the list of
> files modified after the date chosen. But I am not getting good
> results when I check it...
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> echo "Enter a date (YYYYMMDD) "
> read date
> touch -t 00000000 /tmp/timestamp
> echo "Enter a directory.."
> read dir
> find "$dir" -type f -newer /tmp/timestamp
>
>
> I earlier used -mtime, but it should not be used, as -mtime searches
> for files older by no. of days and not for files modified after a
> particular date.
>
> Can anyone please provide with some pointers to my above Code wrt the
> mistakes that I did..
>
> Thanks a lot in advance... :-))
>
>
date(1) should do the conversions you need.

Robert