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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:28 pm    Post subject: find files within two timestamps on any day Reply with quote

I have a very large number of jpg file generated by a security camera. Over a few months time a huge number of files can get generated, so its good to pare down the files that are unneeded when I have to search through them.

Lets say I have 90 days worth of files, and I only want to find the files that were generated between 3pm and 5pm each day.

I know how use find to search based on older than x days or newer than x days and even between two dates, but now I want to filter to between 3-5 pm over 90 days. I have been using find most of the time, but I know awk and its variants have possibly better ways and I read perl had a good filter library. The only trouble is I am weak at those two so if I was to get examples from those it would have to be enough 'canned code' that I could repeat on my Gentoo almost literally with simple modifications!
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 30, 2013 10:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have been using this format between two dates and times. but it treats these as start and end times.
Code:
find . -type f -newermt "2013-09-01 15:00:00" ! -newermt "2013-12-31 17:00:00"


I tried the following but it only tests for the current day.

Code:
find . -type f -newermt "15:00:00" ! -newermt "17:00:00"

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