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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:41:25
Message-Id: ic69a4$r2u$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding old files by Peter Humphrey
1 On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Hello list,
3 >
4 > Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers
5 > please? I'm recovering from an infection and my brain is stuck.
6 >
7 > It's time to start pruning old stuff from the website I run, which has
8 > 2200 files in 200 directories.
9 >
10 > I'm trying to find old images like this:
11 > find . -iname \*.jpg -exec ls '-cdl' {} \; | cut -d \ -f 5-10
12
13 It's obvious how that command finds old images. Can you explain what
14 it's supposed to do?
15
16 > Is there a simple way to do this? Ideally I'd like a chronologically
17 > ordered list of the files.
18
19 Do you want a chronologically ordered list, or do you want to find
20 files older than a certain age?
21
22 If the former, try this:
23
24 find . -iname '*.jpg' | xargs ls -lt
25
26 If the latter, read the 'find' man page and look for the -mtime test.
27
28 --
29 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My nose feels like a
30 at bad Ronald Reagan movie ...
31 gmail.com

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