Search and Compress Files by Modification Date

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Introduction

Useful list of example for search and compress files by modification date.

Search by date

Find files updated in the last 24 hours

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -mtime 0

Find files updated today

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt `date +%F`

Find files updated in the last 48 hours

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -mtime -2

Find files modified by yesterday

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt `date +%F -d yesterday`

Find files updated in the last 72 hours

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -mtime -3

Search for files modified up to 3 days ago

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt `date +%F -d -3days`

Find files modified after July 1, 2022

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt 2022-07-01

Search by time

Find files updated in the last 3 hours

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -mmin -180
#OR
[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt `date +%F -d -3hours`

Search by file name

Find TXT files updated today

[root@localhost tmp]# find -type f -newermt `date +%F` -name *.txt

Compress the searched files directly

[root@localhost tmp]# find -mtime -10 | xargs tar cvf archive.tar.gz