Find Command Syntax

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:04:38AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> On 9/22/2004 8:39 AM Matthew Seaman wrote:

> >Try:
> >
> >   find /path/to/Maildir/.Spam/cur -type f -mtime +1 -print
> >
> >Or you might want to use -ctime instead of -mtime -- I think mtime is
> >probably a more reliable measure than ctime.

> Thanks for your reply.  This seems to work.  However I'm confused.  
> Should I use -ctime or -mtime?

Hmmm... well, if you just save the Spam messages into that directory
and don't alter them after that, then mtime and ctime will actually be
the same.  Either will do.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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