How to scp files that match a particular date and name pattern

Question

If I run an ls -ltr on myserver.org:/some/path/dir:

-rw-r--r-- 1 devops   devops   20727251 Mar 16 08:02 herp1.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 devops   devops   24542012 Mar 16 08:03 herp2.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 stduser devops    7716282 Mar 16 08:31 herp3.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 stduser devops 1490729406 Apr 20 08:04 herp4.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 stduser devops 1489656380 Apr 20 08:04 herp5.berp
-rw-r--r-- 1 stduser devops 1489960585 Apr 20 08:04 herp6.derp
-rw-r--r-- 1 stduser devops 1492748611 Apr 20 08:04 herp7.berp

I'm looking for a way to use scp in conjunction with a file pattern that will only return *.berp files that were last touched/modified on Apr 20. Usually my scp syntax is:

scp [email protected]:/some/path/dir/* .

But I want the file pattern /some/path/dir/* to only pull down Apr 20 *.berp files. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

As you are trying to fetch from a remote server via SSH, you could do it like this:

ssh [email protected] "cd /some/path/dir/; tar cz \`find . -name '*.berp' -daystart -mtime -5 -a -mtime +3\`" | tar xvz

You may have to play with the mtime values to get the exact date you want.