Find command

[Jeffrey W. Stewart]

If I use find . -mtime -5, can I then display the date and time for the files found? I tried

find . -mtime -5 | ll
find . -mtime -5 -exec ll {} \;
find . -mtime -5 | xargs ll

[John Poff]

Hi,

I got it to work this way:

find . -mtime 5 | xargs ls -ld


JP

[Rodney Hills]

Answer- Yes.

Your second example should work, but you may want to put "-d" option on "ll" so that directories don't list content.

find . -mtime -5 -exec ll -d {} \;

HTH

-- Rod Hills

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeffrey:

If it's *files* you want, let 'find' filter that:

# find . -type f -mtime -5 -exec ls -l {} \;

...or less resource intensive because 'exec' spawns a new process for each file found:

# find . -type f -mtime -5|xargs ls -l

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steve Steel]

Hi

last option using ll -d instead 0f ll

find . -mtime -5 | xargs ll -d

Works fine

find . -mtime -5 |while read $line
do
ll $line|cut -c45-128
done

Is alternative

Play with it

Steve Steel

[Ricardo Bassoi]

Hi,

Is better to use the -type f option ( Regular Files ):

find . -type f -mtime -5 -exec ls -l {} \;

Regards,

Ricardo Bassoi

[James Odak]

if
find . -mtime -5 -exec ll {} \;

isnt working

try
find . -print -mtime -5 -exec ll {} \;


otherwise you have very good advice from everyone else above

[Gary Yu]

Hi,

how about ll -ld `find . -mtime -5 -print` ?

[Jeffrey W. Stewart]

Thanks for everyone's help. The key was "files" and that really helped me with what I was trying to do.

[Jeffrey W. Stewart]

Solution is in thread.