how to find files less than a day old?
Noel Jones
noeldude at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 12:00:59 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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Noel Jones
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