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Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jerry McAllister wrote:

>> find . -mtime -5d -ls
>> Shows correctly files modified less than 5 days old.
>
> in the wrong place - you can get all files in the system printed or none
> rather than just what you want.   Possibly the man page needs to be
> updated to make the effect of parameter order clear.

And that would probably be simpler too than changing the code too.