finding files by date

[Colin Law]

On 4 July 2012 21:56, Kaj Haulrich <kaj.haulrich at adslhome.dk> wrote:
> 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.

Nautilus can do that too, just by clicking on the column headings in
list view.  I think the OP's issue is that he wants to search across
directories.

Colin