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How to check Today's Day and Search Files

Problem: I need to find out today's date and search a file which contain's today's date in the name. Also another file which contains Yesterday's date. I was able to do so by something like: ...
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Select greatest numbered filename

Simple requirement but can't find anything online which can achieve it. I have a list of dated files as below... filename_20120101.dat filename_20120102.dat filename_20120103.dat I ...
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List files created on Sundays

How do I list/find all the files created on Sundays or Mondays? How do I use the date parameter to display them? Something like : ls -f date + %a or find -type f | date +%A or find -type f ...
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Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created

I need a shell script which finds files which are created 1 hour before or 1 hour after a particular file (test.txt) was created. If I go with find -newer, that means I'd have to create a temporary ...
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List of Recently Modified Files

How can I Get a list of all files modified , say 3 months ago. I checked this question but I was not able to apply it to my scenario. I am trying this now , it seems to be working , but I know there ...
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Getting all files that have been modified on a specific date

Is it possible to find all php files within a certain directory that have been modified on a certain date I'm using find /var/www/html/dir/ -mtime -28 | grep '\.php' to get files modified within ...