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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: Looking for files older than n number of days?
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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
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http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/