Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:24:20 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: Kevin Brunelle <kruptos@mlinux.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Find Syntax Message-ID: <43B961C4.8020505@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20060102171456.25239.qmail@web86911.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060102171456.25239.qmail@web86911.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On 1/2/2006 9:14 AM Adam Nealis said the following:
>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> wrote:
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>>On 1/2/2006 8:37 AM Kevin Brunelle said the following:
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>>>On Monday 02 January 2006 11:19, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>>>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 {} \;
>>>>
>>>>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?
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>>>>
>>>Have you tried
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>>>find . -mtime +3w
>>>
>>>I don't know about the other syntax but this is what I find to be the
>>>simplest.
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>>>
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>>>
>>Thanks for your reply. I tried your syntax as:
>>
>>find . -mtime +3w -exec ls -l {} \;
>>
>>It returned nothing as I expected. But then reduced it to one week as:
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>>find . -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \;
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>>which didn't seem to work because these (amongst many others) were returned:
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>>drwx------ 2 nobody nobody 512 Dec 27 14:03 102
>>total 2
>>drwx------ 3 nobody nobody 512 Dec 26 08:03 9
>>total 2
>>drwx------ 2 nobody nobody 512 Dec 26 08:03 7
>>total 432
>>-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Jan 2 07:41 bytesRcvd.rrd
>>-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Jan 2 07:41 bytesRcvdLoc.rrd
>>-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 35292 Jan 2 07:41 bytesSent.rrd
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>>Any ideas why this might be?
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>if you do
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>ls -l /a/directory/name
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>you get directory contents. Is it possible that your "-exec ls -l {} \;"
>is listing directory contents?
>
Yes, that's it!
>To see what I mean, compare these commands:
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>cd /usr/ports/arabic
>find . -exec ls -l {} \;|wc
> 121 991 6569
>find . -exec ls -ld {} \;|wc
> 61 549 3942
>find . -ls | wc
> 61 671 6617
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>If you only want files, and you really have to use -exec ls, you can do
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OK, I understand now. I ultimately want to delete files and was just
trying to check my command before doing the actual delete. I will use
'-ls' in my script.
>find . -type f -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \;
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>
This works too. Thanks again!
Drew
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