How to Automatically Generate a Daily log.txt File of New Files on macOS?

General
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I want to automatically create a log.txt file on my Mac desktop every day that lists the names of all files created that day. What’s the best way to achieve this on macOS (10.14.3)?

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If you want to automatically generate a file named log.txt on your desktop every day that records the names of all newly created files for that day, you can create a script that uses the find command to locate today’s new files and write the results to a log file on your desktop:

#! /bin/bash

LOG_FILE=~/Desktop/log_$(date +%Y-%m-%d).txt
SEARCH_DIR=~

# Find files created since the start of today and save to log file
find "$SEARCH_DIR" -type f -newermt "$(date +%Y-%m-%d)"  > "$LOG_FILE"

Save this script as ~/daily_new_files_logger.sh and make it executable by running:
chmod +x ~/daily_new_files_logger.sh

Then, you can use a LaunchAgent to automatically run this script every day at a specific time (for example, 8 AM):

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.user.dailylogger.plist