Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:00:57 -0600
From:      Noel Jones <noeldude@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: how to find files less than a day old?
Message-ID:  <cce506b050329120018c19da8@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1776.209.87.176.4.1112122957.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>
References:  <1776.209.87.176.4.1112122957.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John
<brianjohn@fusemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files.  Basically I
> want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an
> hour or so old and put them in one file.
> 
> This is what I am using so far:
> 
> find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat > temp.txt
> 
> However, this only grabs files that are less than a day old, so I get some
> files returned that I don't want.  I tried using -0.5 instead of -1 and it
> didn't work.  How can I accomplish this?
> 


find . -mtime -1h -type f ....

man find


-- 
Noel Jones



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?cce506b050329120018c19da8>