Sunday, November 18, 2007

Powerful Linux Find Command

If you want to find files in a certain directory modified sometime ago, you could use these commands to find out easily:

* Example: find everything in current directory modified in the last 24 hours:
  • find . -mtime 0

* Example: find everything in current directory modified in the last 7 days:
  • find . -mtime -7

* Example: find everything in current directory that have NOT been modified in the last year:
  • find . -mtime -365

* Example: find everything in current directory that had been modified more recently than "abc.txt":
  • find . -newer abc.txt

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