Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 08:35:19 -0800 (PST) From: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Find Syntax Message-ID: <20060102163519.78476.qmail@web86910.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <43B952A3.4080800@mykitchentable.net>
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--- Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to find all files with a modification time older than three
> weeks ago. In reading the find man page and searching Google, it seems
> the time returned by 'ls -l' is mtime. Thus I construct the following
> command:
>
> find . -not \( -newermt 3w \) -exec ls -l {} \;
find has -ls as a built-in, so no need to do -exec ls -l {} \;
I'm not sure what you mean by "-newermt" as a flag. Though "-newer mt"
would mean "newer than the file mt", in which case the "3w" part is not
appropriate.
Do these do what you need to?
find . -mtime +21 -ls
or
find -mtime +3w -ls
> But it returns files that are newer:
>
> -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Dec 29 08:43 totContactedRcvdPeers.rrd
> -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Dec 29 08:43 totContactedSentPeers.rrd
> -rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Dec 29 08:33
> ./dc0/hosts/207/106/6/90/pktSent.rrd
>
> I've tried various placement of the '-not' and the )'s but I can't get
> it right. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew
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