Get the count of files coming in UNIX folder after certain datestamp

Question

I want to get the count of files coming into UNIX directory after certain date stamp.

eg I have a folder with the date 28062017 and files are copied to it in certain time.

I want to get the count of file coming from certain time. say

Jun 28 21:17 file 1
Jun 28 21:18 file 2
Jun 28 21:19 file 3
Jun 28 21:20 file 4
Jun 28 21:21 file 5
Jun 28 21:22 file 6
Jun 28 21:23 file 7
Jun 28 21:24 file 8

I want to have the count of files generated after Jun 28 21:21 .

Thanks

Answer 1

You can use find using newermt (for modification time): find . -newermt "2017-01-03" -type f -ls | wc -l find . -newermt "2017-01-03" -type f -ls | wc -l find . -newermt "2017-01-03" -type f -ls | wc -l and than count the number of lines.

For example:

herbert@projects:~/tmp/datetest$ touch -t 201701020100 a.txt
herbert@projects:~/tmp/datetest$ touch -t 201701030100 b.txt
herbert@projects:~/tmp/datetest$ touch -t 201701040100 c.txt
herbert@projects:~/tmp/datetest$ find . -newermt "2017-01-03" -type f -ls
 82353    0 -rw-r--r--   1 herbert  herbert         0 Jan  4 01:00 ./c.txt
 82352    0 -rw-r--r--   1 herbert  herbert         0 Jan  3 01:00 ./b.txt
herbert@projects:~/tmp/datetest$ find . -newermt "2017-01-03" -type f -ls | wc -l
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