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maxim wexler wrote: |
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>> find has many options related to searching by time |
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>> (hours, |
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>> minutes, etc) and you can select by atime, ctime or |
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>> mtime. It's |
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>> all in the man page |
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> I can't get it to work. I used -ctime, -mtime, -mmin. |
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> The files were created on the 26th of this month using |
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> abcde. All the other files in the dir are at least two |
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> weeks old, so I gave it 72(hours) then 3(days) to grab |
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> everything in the last three days then 96 and 4 just |
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> to make sure. I gave it mmin with 4810(72*60 minutes) |
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> and 5760(90*60). Every time nothing happens; nothing |
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> is copied and no error message is generated. I gave it |
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> relative dirs and absolute dirs. I used -type f and |
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> -fstype <file-type>. Nothing. |
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> -mw |
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I believe the right syntax is: |
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find /path/dir -type f -ctime -3 |
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This should mean "show all files created for the last 3 days". |
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Use "-3" not "3" |
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Best regards, |
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Daniel |
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