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Hi David,
This is not my desktop, with my not having permission to add software.
I do thank you, and everyone else, for ideas.
Speaking personally though, one thing I learned from all the options sort 
of  underscores a long held stance of my own.
If one wanted a hand clapping program in Linux, you would likely end up 
with three.  one for the right, one for the left, and a third to make them 
clap smiles.
At this stage, speaking personally, it might be faster for me to find the 
article again creating a new file and name.
  My main desktop uses DOS.
For me, I could locate this with a simple single command...and I have been 
spoiled by the ease of ls -l when hunting through scores of things on my 
Linux shell services.


Cheers all,

Kare

  On Sat, 16 May 2026, David Wright wrote:

> On Sat 16 May 2026 at 16:25:41 (-0400), Karen Lewellen wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>> Thanks, I am aiming for solidity here.
>> I am using a screen reader.
>> The text editor  wording is a bit confusing.
>> Also, because I create many text files in a given day, my goal is very
>> tight  here, but it seems I cannot provide actual dates, just a number
>> of days window?
>> There is not a syntax  for say the window of 12 may,  say 5 days ago until
>>  14 may, which would be 2 days ago?
>> if I follow using  .  provides my home directory, where my files are
>> stored, is that correct?  This is not my desktop, but a service.
>> I do understand that  I should write say "*.txt"
>> However I need to be sure I have corrected the mistake you noted,
>> should it be namef with the dash character?
>> Your extras with print seem profoundly complex.
>> My goal is clear text, that my screen reader can manage, when I use
>> its own   review mode.
>> Does that make more sense?
>> My goals are very tight, as I want to locate a file I saved within
>> this small window, with screen output that my talking computer
>> manages.
>
> I use a bash function for this task. I've attached it as some of the
> lines are a bit long. I have it in my ~/.bashrc, making it always
> available.
>
> You can try it out by saving the attachment, and then typing:
>
>  $ bash -c '. ./find-between; find-between today yesterday ./ | less'
>
> which will give you a list of recent files in this directory,
> piped into less as there may be many files in the list.
>
> The function is documented, as can be seen by typing:
>
>  $ bash -c '. ./find-between; find-between'
>  Usage:  find-between timedate timedate top-of-trees …
>          finds files under top-of-trees with modification timestamps between
>          the two timedates given (free format, in any order; hint: '2000-12-31 11:59'
>          is a simple format that works). The output is sorted by filename.
>  $
>
> If you add the find-between file to your .bashrc, then you only have
> to type the function name:
>
>  $ find-between
>
>  $ find-between today yesterday ./ | less
>
> Obviously you would replace today and yesterday with real dates/times.
> Their format is whatever is acceptable to   date --d   (see man date).
> The order doesn't matter.
>
> All files are listed, but it's a simple matter to grep the outout:
>
>  $ find-between today yesterday ./ | grep 'txt$' | less
>
> though you lose the header line as it's unlikely to match:
>
>  From 2026-05-15 21:57:42-05:00 to 2026-05-16 21:57:42-05:00
>  20260516-081119.08       2136  .Xresources
>  [ … lots more filenames … ]
>
> [Aside: replace the echo commands if they offend you.
> I have msgerr and msgout functions in their place.]
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>

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