Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 17:07:18 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days? Message-ID: <0D1119B615CF2856E282F6F9@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050605234620.P79890@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050605215422.O79500@zoraida.natserv.net> <C1559D2543CB90EEE7006C0D@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> <20050605234620.P79890@zoraida.natserv.net>
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--On Sunday, June 05, 2005 23:47:44 -0400 Francisco Reyes
<lists@natserv.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>
>> Use negation.
>> find ! -n 10 blah
>
> Could not get it to work with anything like that syntax.
> For starters I don't see "-n". I see newer but that seems to compare to
> another file.. Is this something you have done in the past?
>
All I gave you was an example of how negation works, not a specific command
for find.
Try this: find {path} ! -newer {path to file with date you want}
Or you can touch a file with the date you want. Then use that file as the
"key" for find to know what "! -newer" means.
Take a look at this:
<http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml>;
There's tons of ways to do what you want. You just need to choose one that
you like.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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