Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:41:54 +0200 From: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org> To: Jan Schlesner <schlesner@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix epoch changed? Message-ID: <20030414074154.GG3965@trudy.torrini.home> In-Reply-To: <20030413122948.GA42211@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <20030409123257.GA3598@trudy.torrini.home> <20030413122948.GA42211@physik.TU-Berlin.DE>
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:29:48PM +0200, Jan Schlesner wrote:
>> Ok, I remember wrong. But the question remain: why find -mtime -2
>> show a file from 1906 (near 100 year ago) instead of 2 days old?
> Try to use "-mtime 2" instead of "-mtime -2". ;-)
> ^ ^^
It's not the same: positive_2 match file that are exactly 2 day old
but where negative_2 match file old from 0 upto 2 day. I need the
second :-( And is documented, not a my invention...
# man find
[...]
Any number of units may be combined in one -atime argument, for
example, ``-atime -1h30m''. Units are probably only useful when
used in conjunction with the + or - modifier.
[...]
# find /usr/ports/distfiles -mtime 20 -exec ls -land {} \; | \
sed 's/^..........[ 0-9]* //'
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2/docs
Mar 25 11:08 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE
# find /usr/ports/distfiles -mtime -20 -exec ls -land {} \; | \
sed 's/^..........[ 0-9]* //'
Apr 4 14:40 /usr/ports/distfiles
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2/docs
Apr 7 14:30 /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb
Apr 4 14:31 /usr/ports/distfiles/vim
Mar 25 11:08 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc
Dec 21 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc/X336src-2.tgz
Dec 21 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc/X336src-1.tgz
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE
Dec 12 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/mirrormagic-1.3.tar.gz
# find /usr/ports/distfiles -mtime 21 -exec ls -land {} \; | \
sed 's/^..........[ 0-9]* //'
[...empty list...]
# find /usr/ports/distfiles -mtime -21 -exec ls -land {} \; | \
sed 's/^..........[ 0-9]* //'
Apr 4 14:40 /usr/ports/distfiles
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2/docs
Apr 7 14:30 /usr/ports/distfiles/bdb
Apr 4 14:31 /usr/ports/distfiles/vim
Mar 25 11:08 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc
Dec 21 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc/X336src-2.tgz
Dec 21 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/xc/X336src-1.tgz
Mar 25 11:10 /usr/ports/distfiles/KDE
Dec 12 1909 /usr/ports/distfiles/mirrormagic-1.3.tar.gz
--
Riccardo.
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