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How to scp/tar files that are in between specific days?

I need to copy db log files between two suse servers where I am interested in files ONLY in between 10.3.2013 - 13.3.2013 It is desired to compress the files before copying so I tar them and scp. ...
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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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Create sub-directories and organize files by date

I have some directories of files copied from my security camera that I would like to organize into sub-directories by file date. So for example; -rwxrwxrwx 0 root root 4935241 Jul 19 2012 ...
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Outputting last modification date to another file?

I'm trying to read the number of lines in a file, and the last modification date of that file (e.g. if it was last modified Jan 18, 2013, it should output 2013-01-18), then append the data to the ...
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Renaming a bunch of files with date modified timestamp at the end of the filename?

So, say, I have a directory with a bunch of files like g.txt, where g.txt was last modified on, say, June 20, 2012. How would I batch-rename all of the files (like g.txt) with the last modified date ...
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Why are the timestamps on files so old on my newly installed system?

I installed the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 on a client system today. If it is of any concern, it's running on the bare metal. After the installation was completed, I did ls -ltr / and it showed a ...
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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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last time file opened

Is it possible to get the time when file was opened last time and sort all files in a directory by those times?
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Is it possible to reference the most recently modified file in a command line argument?

I frequently download PDF files with heinous numeric file names from my browser. These automatically go into ~/Downloads. Ideally I would like to just be able to open these files with: evince "the ...
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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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How to list files sorted by modification date recursively (no stat command available!)

How can I get the list of all files under current directory along with their modification date and sorted by that date? Now I know how to achieve that with find, stat and sort, but for some weird ...
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How can I delete all files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a certain amount of time?

I'd like to run a nightly cron job that deletes all the files in a folder that haven't been accessed in a week or more. What is the most efficient way to do this in bash?