How do I find all the files that were created today in Unix/Linux?

On my Fedora 10 system, with findutils-4.4.0-1.fc10.i386:

find <path> -daystart -ctime 0 -print

The -daystart flag tells it to calculate from the start of today instead of from 24 hours ago.

Note however that this will actually list files created or modified in the last day. find has no options that look at the true creation date of the file.


find . -mtime -1 -type f -print

To find all files that are modified today only (since start of day only, i.e. 12 am), in current directory and its sub-directories:

touch -t `date +%m%d0000` /tmp/$$
find . -type f -newer /tmp/$$
rm /tmp/$$

Source


I use this with some frequency:

$ ls -altrh --time-style=+%D | grep $(date +%D)

After going through many posts I found the best one that really works

find $file_path -type f -name "*.txt" -mtime -1 -printf "%f\n"

This prints only the file name like abc.txt not the /path/tofolder/abc.txt

Also also play around or customize with -mtime -1