Hi, I think this may not be the right place to put this thread but thought of seeking the inputs of Perl and Unix Gurus, as such have put it.. I am trying to write a Korne Shell asking the user for a date and a directory and then search recursively in this directory the list of files modified after the date chosen. But I am not getting good results when I execute it... 
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "Enter a date (YYYYMMDD) "
read dte
touch -t "$dte"0000 /tmp/timestamp
echo "Enter a directory.."
read dir
find "$dir" -type f -newer /tmp/timestamp
rm /tmp/timestamp

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I earlier used -mtime, but it should not be used, as -mtime searches for files older by no. of days and not for files modified after a particular date. Can anyone please provide with some pointers to my above Code (only in Korne Shell please), wrt the mistakes that I did.. Thanks a lot in advance... :-))

In reply to (OT) In Korne Shell Script - Finding modified File List after the chosen date... by marconi

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