Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:10:30 -0800 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Adam Nealis <adamnealis@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Find Syntax Message-ID: <43B95E86.1020309@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <20060102163519.78476.qmail@web86910.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <20060102163519.78476.qmail@web86910.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
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On 1/2/2006 8:35 AM Adam Nealis said the following:
>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> 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 {} \;
>>
>>
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>find has -ls as a built-in, so no need to do -exec ls -l {} \;
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>
Thanks. I tried it with '-ls' but the output wasn't formatted in a
manner that was easy on my eyes. '-exec ls -l' keeps the date in the
same column and is easier for me to scan as the output scrolls by.
>I'm not sure what you mean by "-newermt" as a flag. Though "-newer mt"
>would mean "newer than the file mt", in which case the "3w" part is not
>appropriate.
>
>
I interpreted the man page to mean the '-newermt' was files with a mtime
that is "newer" than the time spec. Since what I really wanted was
"older", I added the '-not'.
>Do these do what you need to?
>
>find . -mtime +21 -ls
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>or
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>find -mtime +3w -ls
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>
Kind of. Please see my reply to Kevin Brunelle.
Thanks,
Drew
>>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?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Drew
>>
>>
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