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.

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/$$

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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

This worked for me. Lists the files created on May 30 in the current directory.

ls -lt | grep 'May 30'

 find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type f -execdir basename '{}' ';' | grep `date +'%Y%m%d'`

To get file before 24 hours execute below command:

find . -type f -mtime 1 -exec ls -l {} \;

To get files created today execute below command:

find . -type f -mtime -1 -exec ls -l {} \;

To Get files created before n days before, where +2 is before 2 days files in below command:

find . -type f -mtime +2 -exec ls -l {} \;