Unix Command for Listing Files Modified on a Date

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-finding-files-by-date/

I hope you are familiar with man page (if you are a unix user, you should). If somebody doesn't know how to use the unix man page and vi editor, I would say he/she is not so familiar with unix. Try the man page for the 'find' command first, you will see lot of information and options regarding file search. Man page is the first thing to see for the unix user for any sort of help. To go the man page, just type: man <command_name> and enter. For example to see the details of 'find' command, type: man find

Hope it is useful to you.

- MS

I believe the command would be:

ls -lt

this should list the files in long format sorted by time (which includes the date).

Here's a link to common UNIX commands.

I just realized that my recommendation may be problematic if a large number of files exist.

One way would be to use the ls -lt |m and pipe the output to a file, then search the file for the desired date.

Or you could use:

find . -type f |xargs stat -c%n%y |grep "2007-09-17"

to find a file with a date of Sept 17th 2007.

Also this should work:

ls -l |grep "date"