Re: a hopefully simple ls command question?

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Subject	Re: a hopefully simple ls command question?
Date	2026-05-17 18:40 +0200
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Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> wrote:
> I am a bit lost.
> where are the temp files?

The temp files are created by the touch commands and are called start
and end. They are in the /tmp directory and are removed by the last
line of greg's little script.

I think his approach is probably about as simple as you will find.

> honestly, I just want a simple file display showing what might be a
> dozen file names in this specific window.
> why is this not possible?
> Kare
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 May 2026, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 16:25:41 -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:  
> >> 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?  
> >
> > There are lots of ways to solve this problem.  Here's another
> > approach:
> >
> > touch -t 202605120000 /tmp/start
> > touch -t 202605150000 /tmp/end
> > find . -name '*.txt' -newer /tmp/start ! -newer /tmp/end -print
> > rm /tmp/start /tmp/end
> >
> > This creates two temporary files whose timestamps delimit the period
> > of time we're interested in: from the start of 2026-05-12 to the
> > start of 2026-05-15.  This is a period lasting 72 hours (3 days).
> >
> > As before, you can replace -print with -ls or -printf if you want a
> > different output format.
> >
> >  
>

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