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Asked: 2026-05-29T04:36:34+00:00

I’m in the process of writing a bash script (just learning it) which needs

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I’m in the process of writing a bash script (just learning it) which needs to find files in subdirectories created after a certain date. I have a folder /images/ with jpegs in various subfolders – I want to find all jpegs uploaded to that directory (or any subdirectories) after a certain date. I know about the -mtime flag, but my “last import” date is stored in %Y-%m-%d format and it’d be nice to use that if possible?

Also, each file/pathname will then be used to generate a MySQL SELECT query. I know find generally outputs the filenames found, line-by-line. But if find isn’t actually the command that I should be using, it’d be nice to have a similar output format I could use to generate the SELECT query (WHERE image.file_name IN (...))

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try below script:

    DATE=<<date>>
SEARCH_PATH=/images/
DATE=`echo $DATE|sed 's/-//g'`
DATE=$DATE"0000"
FILE=~/timecheck_${RANDOM}_$(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M")
touch -t $DATE $FILE
find $SEARCH_PATH -newer $FILE 2>/dev/null|awk 'BEGIN{f=0}{if(f==1)printf("\"%s\", ",l);l=$0;f=1}END{printf("\"%s\"",l)}'
rm -f $FILE
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