From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 15: 1:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54DA037B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAHN1YW90815; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:01:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:01:33 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: Oliver Crow Cc: Philip Hallstrom , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need a "find / -newer date_string" type of program... Message-ID: <20001117150133.A90703@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from ocrow@skymind.com on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:18:30PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 02:18:30PM -0800, Oliver Crow wrote: > You can use 'touch' to turn a date into a file (so to speak). > To find files newer than yesterday, for example: There's also find's "-mtime" and "-mmin" options. Which of these methods is easier will probably depend on your exact situation. -- Matthew Hunt * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message