When I have a need like this, I think of find2perl. If you look at the man page for find, you see that there is a way to list files newer than a date or another file. Say you keep a file called 'lasttime' that you modify the last time yo run your check...

find2perl /mydir -type f -newer lasttime -print > find-recent-files.pl

gets you some perl that is close to what you want, and you can change the strings '/mydir' and 'lasttime' to command line input. 


#! /opt/local/bin/perl -w
    eval 'exec /opt/local/bin/perl -S $0 ${1+"$@"}'
        if 0; #$running_under_some_shell

use strict;
use File::Find ();

use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/;
*name   = *File::Find::name;
*dir    = *File::Find::dir;
*prune  = *File::Find::prune;

sub wanted;

my $timefile = shift;
my $rootdir = shift;

(-e "$timefile") or die "$0 : last mod time file \"$timefile\" does no
+t exist\n";
(-d "$rootdir") or die "$0 : directory \"$rootdir\" for search does no
+t exist\n";

my $AGE_OFlasttime = -M "$timefile";


# Traverse desired filesystems
File::Find::find({wanted => \&wanted}, "$rootdir");
exit;

sub wanted {
    my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid);

    (($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) = lstat($_)) &&
    -f _ &&
    (-M _ < $AGE_OFlasttime) &&
    print("$name\n");
}

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