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Larry Golade
Asked: 2021-02-02 02:56:38 +0800 CST

Is there a simple way to filter files by date across all directories?

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I have a 64GB SD card mass storage. I recently bought a 64GB USB drive to duplicate all my files from the SD card in case of a failure. I would like to keep a daily update of the USB drive to mirror the SD card. How can I sort all the files across all directories on the SD card by date to select the most recent for copying?

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  1. Basically if you want to have a full backup you should use something like rsync or a complete backup solution to create incremental backups.

    However for your question, I guess find can be helpful:

    find /media/username/sdcard -mtime -1

    The above command would find all files modified from yesterday till now.

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