How To List Files with a Certain Date Stamp

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Here is a quick tip on how to list files in a directory with a certain date stamp using awk.

Let’s say that you want to list all files stamped with 2008-04-11.

# ls -l | awk '{if($6=="2008-04-11") print $N }'

-rw-r--r-- 1 adam users 0 2008-04-11 16:27 file1 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam users 0 2008-04-11 16:27 file2 -rw-r--r-- 1 adam users 0 2008-04-11 16:27 file3

If you want to list only the file names, add an F switch.

# ls -l | awk '{if($6=="2008-04-11") print $NF }'
file1
file2
file3

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