finding files by date

[Kaj Haulrich]

On 07/04/2012 09:57 PM, Krzysztof Mitko wrote:
> W dniu 04.07.2012 10:09, G. pisze:
>> Is there is gui method for finding files by date in Ubuntu 12?  I can
>> not find same in software center.  I can find some good programs for
>> finding by name and location.   There are commands for doing this and
>> also searching by size but not by date that I can find.  Is finding by
>> date just not possible>
>
> I use recall lens, it has file search by date (among many other things).
>
> <http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/recoll-lens-full-text-search-unity-lens.html>
>
> You will have to run indexing first, which can take a long time. The
> search syntax is here:
>
> <http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/rcl.search.lang.html>
>

The Dolphin file manager can sort files in a directory by date, name, 
size, tags, type, rating, comment etc... Just 'sudo apt get install 
dolphin'. It will pull some KDE dependencies, but no big deal.

HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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