List files created before Noon 2 days prior

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Our nightly updates run in the evening and finish around 8am. My boss wants the current log files kept on the server for 2 days, but wants anything created before noon, 2 days prior archived. I was thinking of using touch to set a temporary file with a date of today-2 and a time of noon, then moving anything older to an archive directory. My problem is that I can't find a way to set the date. Any ideas, or a better way to do it?

Here is what I have for anything prior to noon today, but cant get noon of 2 days ago figured out.

REF=.tmp.$$
TARGETDIR=/export/home/Archive
touch -t $(date +%m%d)1200 $REF # today at Noon
find . ! -newer $REF -exec cp -p {} $TARGETDIR \;

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Today:
date +%m%d
2 days ago:
TZ=TZ+48 date +%m%d
5 days ago:
TZ=TZ+120 date +%m%d

Make sure both "TZ=.." and "date...." are on the same line with a " " (space) in beteen. So not a ";"

3

sb008,
Your solution worked great on our Sun Solaris box, but some of the boxes are HP running SUSE Linux and it ignored the TZ command there.

Does anyone know a way to do that in SUSE Linux?

Thanks

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sb008, thanks for your idea. The TZ didn't work on the SUSE Linux, but got me to explore in the right area and I found this solution which worked great for me.

touch -t $(date -d "-2 day" +%m%d)1200 $REF

Thanks!