How do I know if a file has been modified in a directory

[Henry Chua]

Hi Guys,

Merry christmas to all!!! ^_^

Just want to find is that any way to find out if a directory contain files that has been modified without goin into the directory itself?

thank u!!

Henry

[Tony Constantine · Accepted solution]

Hi Henry,

You could try:

find "directory" -mtime +1 (see man find)

[Georg Tresselt]

ls -l

[MarkSyder]

Hi Henry - Merry Christmas to you too.

When a file in a directory is modified the timestamp on the directory is updated.

If you type:

ll -tr

you will see a listing of files/directories in the order in which they were last amended. The r means reverse order, which will place the most recently amended files/directories at the bottom.

If you only want to check one directory you could use:

ll|grep dirname

where dirname is the name of the directory you want to check.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

[Paul Torp]

find /directory -mtime + (hours from now)

Then u can i u please add a -exec rm {}\;

if u e.g want to remove old logfiles.

tips.. always test with ls insted of rm before deleting files. (at least the first time)

-paul

[Henry Chua]

thanks