Find Syntax

[Drew Tomlinson]

On 1/2/2006 9:14 AM Adam Nealis said the following:

>--- Drew Tomlinson <drew at mykitchentable.net> wrote:
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>>On 1/2/2006 8:37 AM Kevin Brunelle said the following:
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>>>On Monday 02 January 2006 11:19, Drew Tomlinson 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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>>>>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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>>>Have you tried
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>>>find . -mtime +3w
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>>>I don't know about the other syntax but this is what I find to be the 
>>>simplest.
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>>Thanks for your reply.  I tried your syntax as:
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>>find . -mtime +3w -exec ls -l {} \;
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>>It returned nothing as I expected.  But then reduced it to one week as:
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>>find . -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \;
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>>which didn't seem to work because these (amongst many others) were returned:
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>>drwx------  2 nobody  nobody  512 Dec 27 14:03 102
>>total 2
>>drwx------  3 nobody  nobody  512 Dec 26 08:03 9
>>total 2
>>drwx------  2 nobody  nobody  512 Dec 26 08:03 7
>>total 432
>>-rw-------  1 nobody  nobody  35292 Jan  2 07:41 bytesRcvd.rrd
>>-rw-------  1 nobody  nobody  35292 Jan  2 07:41 bytesRcvdLoc.rrd
>>-rw-------  1 nobody  nobody  35292 Jan  2 07:41 bytesSent.rrd
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>>Any ideas why this might be?
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>if you do
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>ls -l /a/directory/name
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>you get directory contents. Is it possible that your "-exec ls -l {} \;"
>is listing directory contents? 
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Yes, that's it!

>To see what I mean, compare these commands:
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>cd /usr/ports/arabic
>find . -exec ls -l {} \;|wc
>     121     991    6569
>find . -exec ls -ld {} \;|wc
>      61     549    3942
>find . -ls | wc
>      61     671    6617
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>If you only want files, and you really have to use -exec ls, you can do
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OK, I understand now.  I ultimately want to delete files and was just 
trying to check my command before doing the actual delete.  I will use 
'-ls' in my script.

>find . -type f -mtime +1w -exec ls -l {} \;
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This works too.  Thanks again!

Drew