Find Syntax

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 1/2/2006 8:35 AM Adam Nealis said the following:

>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew at 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:
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>>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.
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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?
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>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:
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>>-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
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>>I've tried various placement of the '-not' and the )'s but I can't get 
>>it right.  What am I missing?
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>>Thanks,
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>>Drew
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