how to find files created within last few hours ?

[Sammy_2]

I can use find command with ctime, mtime to find files within days ? How do I find files that were created in the last two hours ? Or lets say, files created since 7:30Am today ?

[Pete Randall]

Use the touch command to create a reference file 2 hours older, then use find with the -newer option.


Pete

[Hai Nguyen_1]

Sam,

You can use "touch" to create a file with a desired creation time. Then you use it with find (I am not near an HP box to give you a correct syntax) to find files created since then.

Hai

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Sam,
You can use a temp file which is created with the reference time like

$touch -t 06120730 /tmp/tmp.out

and then

$find -type f -newer tmp.out

HTH
Umapathy

[Armin Feller]

Or us the following options (-nt or -ot)in korn shell to find out if a file is newer/older as a referece file.

Check with following small script:

#!/bin/ksh ($1, $2 are filename parameters to this script)
if [ $1 -nt $2 ]
then
echo File $1 is newer than file $2
else
echo File $1 is older than file $2
endif

Regards...
Armin

[Sammy_2]

Thanks Pete and Hai.
I used touch -t command then then newer command in the find command to find the files. It worked.

[Sammy_2]

Uma solution was exactly what I did and it worked for me although others were on the same track but could not recall the exact syntax. Thanks Armin but I am looking for quick 1 or 2 lines command.