Find Command Syntax

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 9/22/2004 8:39 AM Matthew Seaman wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 08:26:07AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
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>>I'm trying to write a script to feed the mail in my spam folder to 
>>Spamassassin's sa-learn and then delete the mails older than 1 day in 
>>that spam folder.  Here's my current directory listing:
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>>I'm trying to use the find command to do the deleting but am having 
>>trouble with the syntax.  For testing, I'm using this command:
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>>blacklamb> find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur \! -newerct 1d -print
>>blacklamb>
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>>It finds nothing.  I read in the manual that time specifications don't 
>>have much meaning without the '-' or '+' operator so I try adding it:
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>Try:
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>    find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur -type f -mtime +1 -print
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>Or you might want to use -ctime instead of -mtime -- I think mtime is
>probably a more reliable measure than ctime.
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>
Thanks for your reply.  This seems to work.  However I'm confused.  
Should I use -ctime or -mtime?

Drew

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