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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:34:51 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Find Command Syntax
Message-ID:  <20040922173451.GA18351@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4151A296.90505@mykitchentable.net>
References:  <4151998F.205@mykitchentable.net> <20040922153904.GA16792@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <4151A296.90505@mykitchentable.net>

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:04:38AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 9/22/2004 8:39 AM Matthew Seaman wrote:

> >Try:
> >
> >   find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur -type f -mtime +1 -print
> >
> >Or you might want to use -ctime instead of -mtime -- I think mtime is
> >probably a more reliable measure than ctime.

> Thanks for your reply.  This seems to work.  However I'm confused.  
> Should I use -ctime or -mtime?

Hmmm... well, if you just save the Spam messages into that directory
and don't alter them after that, then mtime and ctime will actually be
the same.  Either will do.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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