Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 23:09:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days? Message-ID: <20050606040941.GJ255@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050605235701.Q80154@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050605215422.O79500@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050606022823.GI255@dan.emsphone.com> <20050605235701.Q80154@zoraida.natserv.net>
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In the last episode (Jun 05), Francisco Reyes said:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > "find . -mtime +5" , or "find . -mtime +5d", depending on whether
> > you want 5 days as of the next midnight, or 5 days as of when find
> > was started.
>
> How do those flags work?
> +5 = changed during last five days?
> -5 = newer than five days?
>From the bottom of the PRIMARIES section of the manpage:
All primaries which take a numeric argument allow the number to be
preceded by a plus sign (``+'') or a minus sign (``-''). A
preceding plus sign means ``more than n'', a preceding minus sign
means ``less than n'' and neither means ``exactly n''.
> I ran it on a directory and was surprised to find that both -5 AND +5
> listed a file from February. :-(
-5 definitely should not, and doesn't on my system. It should be
interpreted as "less than 5 days from midnight tonight".
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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