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Richard Fish wrote: |
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> On 9/29/06, Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> tried all the variations, not that it is the exact command. I was also |
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>> very pissed off when I had to discover that the "find manual page" isn't |
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>> very correct. It never made clear that "-ctime 3" means "now plus 3 |
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>> days" and "-ctime -3" means "now minus 3 days". |
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> Well the man page does have this paragraph in it (emphasis added): |
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> If you are using find in an environment where security is |
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> important |
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> (for example if you are using it to seach directories that are |
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> writable |
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> by other users), you should read the "Security Considerations" |
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> chapter |
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> of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files |
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> and comes |
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> with findutils. **That document also includes a lot more |
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> detail and |
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> discussion than this manual page, so you may find it a more |
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> useful |
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> source of information.** |
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> So you can get better documentation from the info pages by running |
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> "info find.info". If you want specifics on the time options: |
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> # info find.info "Finding Files" "Time" |
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> BTW, in programmer speak, "now plus 3 days" would be interpreted as 3 |
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> days in the future...which is _not_ how find works. To try and |
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> clarify: |
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> -mtime 2 -> files modified between 48 and 72 hours ago. |
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> -mtime -2 -> files modified in the last 2 days...the period between 0 |
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> and 48 hours ago. |
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> -mtime +2 -> files modified more than 48 hours ago |
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> HTH, |
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> -Richard |
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Point taken! Thanks for the clarification, Richard! |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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