problem find

[Kavitha]

Hi !
Iam using the find command in the following way,
# find . -mtime 15 -exec ll {} \;. My idea behind this is to list all the files that are older than 15days. But the resule of this command is that Iam getting only the files of Dec 17 2001. Even though the directory has files of Jan-Nov also Dec.

Can anybody help me understanding this.

regards,

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Try -mtime +15

Regards,
John

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi,

Also, you might want to put "-type f" too, since if a directory is older than 15 days, as well as the files within it, you'll get repeated output. Or else use "ll -d".

find . -mtime +15 | xargs ll -d

or

find . -mtime +15 -type f | xargs ll

is what I'd use (xargs is more efficient than -exec).

Rgds, Robin.

[Darrell Allen]

As info...

"find -mtime +n" selects files with a modification time > n days old.

"find -mtime -n" selects files with a modification time < n days old.

"find -mtime n" selects files with a modification time for the 1 day period that begins n days in the past.

"n" days is actually "n x 24" hours from the time you run the find command.

Darrell