finding files by date

[G.]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Right Collin.  Say I want to run a backup manually of just recent
files, say since June 1.  I want to be able to search for all files
with a creation or modification date of say >= 06/01/2012.

Thanks for the other suggestions.  Will check them out.


gary