topic Re: find command in Operating System - HP-UX

find command

Victor_5 — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:02:53 GMT

I only want to list the files of April, when I run

find . -atime -17 -exec ls -al {} \;

It returned everything not only April but also Jan. Feb...., what is the correct command to find those files only in April?

Re: find command

Helen French — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:08:47 GMT

Hi Victor:

Use '-mtime' option:

# find . -mtime -17 -exec ls -al {} \;

HTH,
Shiju

Re: find command

Darrell Allen — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:09:15 GMT

Hi Victor,

Use reference files and "newer" logic:

touch 03312359 /tmp/Mar
touch 05010000 /tmp/May
find . -type f -newer /tmp/Mar -a ! -newer /tmp/May

Darrell

Re: find command

Mark van Hassel — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:09:33 GMT

Hi,

atime means acces time. You should try mtime (file modification time).

HtH,

Mark

Re: find command

S.K. Chan — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:10:36 GMT

You can do thie .. create a dummy reference file dated April 01 00:01 and use find command to list all files newer than that reference file.
Eg : in /opt

# cd /opt
# touch 04010001 ref-file
# find . -newer ref-file -exec ls -al {} \;

Re: find command

A. Clay Stephenson — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:11:30 GMT

Hi:

The find command is returning just what you asked. Find all the files that have been ACCESSED (-atime) in the past 17 days butr the ls command is displaying the modification times. It is entirely possible that a file has been recently accessed but last modified months ago. You probably want to use the find -mtime argument instead.

Re: find command

Darrell Allen — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:12:48 GMT

Hi again,

Should have said that you don't need the "-a ! -newer May" if you are checking for the current month"

find . -type f -newer /tmp/Mar

Darrell

Re: find command

John Palmer — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:15:39 GMT

It could also be that you are listing the contents of directories that have been selected by find.

If you are only interested in files then supply '-type f' to find or you could suppress the listing of the contents of directories with 'ls -ald {}'

Regards,
John

Re: find command

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:24:09 GMT

ll -R | grep " Apr " should be enough.

There is not reason to do a find followed to ll.

Re: find command

pap — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:54:32 GMT

Hi USe,

-mtime instead of -atime.

-atime is for accessed files for a particular period of time. This is the reason you are getting all files in your find result which you run the command.

-pap

Re: find command

Catherine_3 — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 13:59:33 GMT

Hi Victor ,
I think Chan's method can work.

I have a test

You can do thie .. create a dummy reference file dated April 01 00:01 and use find command to list all files newer than that reference file.

#cd /
# touch 04010001 ref-file
# find . -newermm ref-file -print
note m - modified
or
#cd /
# touch 04010001 ref-file
# find . -newermm ref-file -print

try it

Re: find command

Victor_5 — Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:46:43 GMT

I missed on switch, -type f, no matter I use -atime -mtime or even -ctime, the output was same, the final command is

find . -type -f -mtime -17 -exec ls -al {} \;

-newer also can work.

Carlos, I like you idea, thanks!

Catherine, thanks a lot!

Thank you, all!