Get list of files whose creation date is greater than some date linux

Question

I have these files in Hadoop and want the list of all files whose creation date is greater than 2016-11-21.

-rw-r-----   3 pharpan1 hadoop      73439 2017-01-02 15:20 manpoc_pre
-rw-r-----   3 pharpan1 hadoop      12190 2017-02-02 19:42 message.txt
-rw-r-----   3 pharpan1 hadoop        374 2016-11-14 18:18 newbin
-rw-r-----   3 pharpan1 hadoop        614 2016-11-14 18:19 newcalcpi
-rw-r-----   3 pharpan1 hadoop        154 2016-11-21 20:12 newspoc    

I tried the command below but it's printing all the files. How to get only the one's which satisfy the condition

 dateA='2016-11-21'
 hdfs dfs -ls -t | awk '{if($6 -ge dateA) print $8;}'

Answer 1

Pass the input date as a variable into awk expression(via -v option):

dateA='2016-11-21'
hdfs dfs -ls -t | awk -v dateA="$dateA" '{if ($6 > dateA) {print $8}}' 

The output:

manpoc_pre
message.txt