From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 29 20:26:26 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7769216A4CE for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:26:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094C543D2F for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:26:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noeldude@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so636516wra for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:26:25 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=JM/QQihNamtjKSDO2FUyAhVwfWwus26R6FMSfxDf+rFETBJPN88E0ZVIRVPHyfgCot10C+OTvEbyEpLE2VsJQaneK3jdMlhmMRfUZ/2GuPuiRsiR1C9vYthT3mnb67LoN7u9uILUvhCWVldKqdMN7jiy7BhhJulXMWYRDdPWG9M= Received: by 10.54.35.65 with SMTP id i65mr1248905wri; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:26:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.82.4 with HTTP; Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:26:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:26:24 -0600 From: Noel Jones To: brianjohn@fusemail.com In-Reply-To: <4271.209.87.176.4.1112127105.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4271.209.87.176.4.1112127105.fusewebmail-19592@webmail.fusemail.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to find files less than a day old? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Noel Jones List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:26:26 -0000 On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:11:45 -0600 (CST), Brian John wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > I read the man page and didn't see that. It doesn't appear to work on the > box that I am ssh-ing to. Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is not a > FreeBSD box that I am connected to. I think it may be a Solaris 9 box. > Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris? > Maybe the solaris find command supports the -newer option. I think -newer is more widely supported, and likely to be available on Solaris. If necessary, you could then create a reference file using touch with the proper time stamp on it. You can do this automatically within a script, using the date command to figure out the current time. You can calculate the time one hour ago by using a command something like TZ={your timezone + 1} date -- Noel Jones