Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 09:56:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days? Message-ID: <20050606095343.D86876@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050606040941.GJ255@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050605215422.O79500@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050606022823.GI255@dan.emsphone.com> <20050605235701.Q80154@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050606040941.GJ255@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote: >> 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". I think I found a bug in find. If you add the '-ls' parameter before the -mtime it ignores mtime. Example: find . -ls -mtime -5d Shows all files in directory. find . -mtime -5d -ls Shows correctly files modified less than 5 days old.
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