Finding files created today??

[Eric Antunes]

I'm searching in a specific directory for files created today. Is this the correct approach (?):

find -ctime -1

Thanks,

Eric Antunes

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Eric,

You'll be able to be much more specific if you use the -newer option. Touch a reference file:

touch -t 200502162359 /tmp/reftime1

Then use find:

find -newer /tmp/reftime1


If you need to limit the search, you can also use the "not newer" construct:

find ! -newer /tmp/reftime2


Pete

[Eric Antunes]

Thanks Pete!

I found my way with:

find -ctime -1 -exec grep -l 'ORA-01403' {} \;

Eric

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Eric,

-1 is not older then 24 Hrs so this will also list files that were created yesterday.

you could use this:
ll $(find . -type f -ctime -1 2>/dev/null) | grep "$( date +'%b %d'
)"

HTH,

Gideon

[Peter Godron]

Eric,
also the find files in a SPECIFIC directory you would need to add path and prune, otherwise find will search sub-directories as well.
Regards

[Eric Antunes]

Thanks again!