Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:03:38 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Kevin Brunelle <kruptos@mlinux.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Find Syntax Message-ID: <43B95CEA.5010208@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200601021137.08809.kruptos@mlinux.org> References: <43B952A3.4080800@mykitchentable.net> <200601021137.08809.kruptos@mlinux.org>
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On 1/2/2006 8:37 AM Kevin Brunelle said the following:
>On Monday 02 January 2006 11:19, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
>Have you tried
>
>find . -mtime +3w
>
>I don't know about the other syntax but this is what I find to be the
>simplest.
>
>
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:
find . -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \;
which didn't seem to work because these (amongst many others) were returned:
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
Any ideas why this might be?
Thanks,
Drew
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