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Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – 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 file, use touch to change the time on that 1 hour before the creation time of the test.txt file, and then use -newer tempFile to find the files which are newer than the tempFile, ultimately finding the files which are created 1 hour before the test.txt file. Then I have to go back through that process to find those an hour or more older than the file I'm interested in. That seems like a lot of ext (HowTos)

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I am not well-versed with Unix commands.

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I have a folder with hundreds of text files with filenames of the form hhmmSkz.txt were hh and mm correspond to the hour and minute in which the file was generated and S is the string part of the name that has elements k and z that change from file to file.

I need to put together all the files that correspond to the same hour.

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DATA -> 2012-01-01 -> 00 -> ABC_2012-01-03_00.txt -> 01 -> ABC_2012-01-03_01.txt -> 02 -> ABC_2012-01-03_02.txt ... -> 23 -> ABC_2012-01-03_02.txt -> 2012-01-02 -> 2012-01-03

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I am listing the files which are 4 hours older. For this first I have creted a dummy file with the 4 hours before timestamp, then I am using the below find command,

find /path/ -type f ! -newer 4_hours_oledr_file -exec ls -lrt {} \;

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Tar overwrites read only files 1 year 16 weeks ago

I created dir test, created a file 1.txt in the test. dir, wrote 'Before' in this file. then I went

cd ..

used the command

tar-cvzf ./test.tgz ./test

Then I entered the test dir again. Opened the 1.txt file again. Changed content to "After". I saved the file and changed chmod to read only by executing:

chmod -w ./1.txt

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Hi,

I have used this Code: find .