how to find files less than a day old?

Brian John brianjohn at fusemail.com
Tue Mar 29 12:11:46 PST 2005


> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:02:37 -0600 (CST), Brian John
> <brianjohn at fusemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to write a script to concatenate a bunch of files. 
Basically I
> > want to grab a bunch of files out of a directory that are less than an
> > hour or so old and put them in one file.
> >
> > This is what I am using so far:
> >
> > find . -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cat > temp.txt
> >
> > However, this only grabs files that are less than a day old, so I get
some
> > files returned that I don't want.  I tried using -0.5 instead of -1
and it
> > didn't work.  How can I accomplish this?
> >
>
>
> find . -mtime -1h -type f ....
>
> man find
>
>
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I read the man page and didn't see that.  It doesn't appear to work on the
box that I am ssh-ing to.  Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is not a
FreeBSD box that I am connected to.  I think it may be a Solaris 9 box. 
Is there any way to get this to work in Solaris?

Thanks

/Brian


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