find command with newera option like HP-UX on RHEL5

[Mike_Swift]

To find the files created/accessed in the last <n> minutes, on HP-UX we use find with -newera option after touching 2 files with different timestamps and comparing them (with find / -newera file1 ! -newera file2). What would be a similar command in Linux? Thanks in advance!

Mike.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Enlightenment can be found in the manpages :-)  That said, Linux supports find() options like '-daystart' which alters the notion of a "today" for the options '-[acm]min' and '-[acm]time' in additon to the '-[acm]newer file'.

Based upon your question, you would want something like:

# find . -type f -mmin -30 -print

...to find files last modified with 30-minutes of the current time.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Mike_Swift]

Hello JRF

find with -mmin would only give the files modified, i also want to know files accessed (that is what -newera on hp-ux would do). so what i would do is the following

1. touch filea

2. sleep for n seconds

3. touch fileb

4. use the find command to see what all files where accessed/modified etc in the last n seconds.

I want to do that in RHEL 5 linux.

Thanks

Mike

[James R. Ferguson]

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@Mike_Swift wrote:

find with -mmin would only give the files modified, i also want to know files accessed (that is what -newera on hp-ux would do). so what i would do is the following

...

I want to do that in RHEL 5 linux.

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# find . -type f -amin -30 -print

...to find files last *accessed* within 30-minutes of the current time.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Goran Koruga]

Hello.

Well GNU find also supports "-newerXY" switch, "-not/"' and the "-a/-and" one.

info find -> Finding Files -> Time -> Comparing Timestamps

info find -> Finding Files -> Time -> Age Ranges

That should be enough to do what you want.

Regards,

Goran