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I'm trying to select files that are older than a specific date & time, and found this MC ticket that exactly describes my issue, and this comment on it provides a workaround, but I cannot get it to work. To quote:

ok, you can use External panalize 0) touch -d "Jun 01 00:00 2011" /tmp/.date1 1) enter into your BIG dir 2) press C-x ! (External panalize ) 3) add new command like a "find . -type f \( -newer /tmp/.date1 \) -print"

I get stuck at "Add new" and the window just exits; I tried entering something at "Other command", but no joy.

Unable to enter custom commands at CTRL-X !

This thread actually solves what I'm trying to do with find on the terminal, but I'm really curious how to do this in MC.

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You have to enter a command into the text box below the "Command" label. If you leave it empty, "Add new" will just exit. What might be confusing is that the text box initially is out of focus (at least that's the case on my system), so have to click it before entering a command.

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