command to find the directory modification date

[sheevm]

Hi All,

can someone tell me what is the best command to use to get the list of the directories that are not modified from the last 30 days?

HP-UX--11.23

Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

# find /path -type d -mtime +30

Regards!

...JRF...

[A. Clay Stephenson]

To answer you question literally,

find / -type d -mtime +30

However this may be a question of you not meaning precisely what you are saying; it depends upon whether you mean has the directory been modified in the last 30 days or have the contents of the directory been modified in the last 30 days. It also might depend upon do you mean "changed" or "modified" in UNIX-speak. Those are synonyms in English but not in UNIX.

[sheevm]

Thanks for the help. This command is listing the sub directories also. I am only interested in the parent directories.

for ex:

./2007-04-23-------I only need this
./2007-04-23/dladb07
./2007-04-23/dladb07/00-00

Thanks

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

# find /tmp -type d -mtime +30 -path "/tmp/*"

# cd /path
# find . -type d -mtime +30 -path "./*"

Regards!

...JRF...

[sheevm]

James,

The path is not working. I do not get anything if I type

cd /home/raji
find ./ -type d -path /home/raji
or
find ./ -type d -path "/home/raji/*"

(i expect just /home/raji/temp)

if I type

find ./ -type -d

i get

/home/raji/temp
/home/raji/temp/test1
/home/raji/temp/test/test1


I checked man pages did not see any syntax problem in my command.

Thanks

[Sandman!]

>The path is not working. I do not get anything if I type

>cd /home/raji
>find ./ -type d -path /home/raji
>or
>find ./ -type d -path "/home/raji/*"

That's because the path args are missing the leading period whereas your search path is "./" i.e. period followed by slash. Change your find stmt to...

find ./ -type d -path "./home/raji/*"

[A. Clay Stephenson]

cd /home/raji
find ./ -type d -path /home/raji

Note that you are specifying a relative path as your starting directory but specifying an absolute path as your -path pattern.

find . -type d -mtime +30 ! -path './*/*'

should find only the 1st level directories under the CWD that have not been modified in 30 days.

[Sandman!]

Overlooked the fact that you were cd'ed into the "/home/raji" directory. So instead use the find(1) command below:

# cd /home/raji
# find ./ -type d -path "./*"

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (again):

Oops, sorry, I should have written something like:

# cd /tmp && find . -type d -mtime +30 ! -path "./*/*"

...to find on the directories under '/tmp' that have not been modified in the last 30-days. If you wanted those modified *during* the last 30-days, change +30 to -30.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Arturo Galbiati · Accepted solution]

Hi Kesh,

find . -type d -mtime +30 -prune

This shows only directories under your directory.

HTH,
Art

[sheevm]

Hi Galbati,

It worked

find with -prune.

Thanks to all of you!!