problem about "find"

[lin.chen]

I use following command to find the file which has been modified during last 30 days.
find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \;
But I failed.because I found some files are in 2004.
How can I fix this issue.
Louis,chenlin

[Shrikant Lavhate]

try

find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} +

[Kapil Jha]

use 30 instead of -30

find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -mtime 30 -exec ls -l {} \;


hope this help....
otherwise RTFM....
man find

BR,
Kapil

[Dennis Handly]

>But I failed because I found some files are in 2004. How can I fix this issue?

Your find will find directories and those could have those 2004 files. So do:
$ find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -mtime -30 -exec ll -d {} +

[Dennis Handly]

>Kapil: use 30 instead of -30

I suggest you check again. The word problem that uses "last N days" would mean some time between today - N and today. find(1) says:
-n means less than n

[john korterman]

Hi,

you could try something like this:

$ find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \;

regards,
John K.

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You made a classis mistake. If you truly only want FILES then you need to specify that restriction:

# find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \;

Otherwise, as 'find' descends the starting path you will do an 'ls' on DIRECTORIES that have been modified within the last 30-days and may indeed report FILES in those directories that have been modified in more or less than that time you specified.

If you want DIRECTORIES that have been modified during the last 30-days, then you would do:

# find /u1/pucka/cap/4gl -type d -mtime -30 -exec ls -ld {} \;

Note, too, that in this case, we add the '-d' switch to the 'ls' argument that we want 'find' to execute to _restrict_ 'ls' to examining only the directory.

Lastly, if you are running 11.11 or later (I hope), better performance (less spawned tasks) will occur if you change the '\;' terminator to a "+". This bundles multiple arguments together instead of forking on 'ls' for each argument. See the 'find' manpages for details.

Regards!

...JRF...