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Hello All,

I want to do a simple find command to find all files older than X days.

# find . -type f -mtime +14 -print

Normally, I would expect the command above to find files modified more 
than 14 days ago.  The syntax is straight out of "UNIX in a Nutshell" by 
O'Reilly & Associates.  However, it does not work in FreeBSD.

I did look at the manpage for find on our FreeBSD 4.1.  The -mtime +n 
syntax is not documented.  How could such an essential feature not be 
implemented in FreeBSD?


Thanks,

Peter Biessener


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