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From: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Find Syntax
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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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