I have a script that uses find and -newer, however everytime it's invoked it returns the same selected old results. For the most part it works, but for example the particular old contents of "/home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/" are returned. How can this be explained?
Many thanks, thor:456$ find /home/hendry/static.natalian.org -newer last.txt -iname *.ogg -o -iname *.ogv -type f /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/12.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/11.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/23.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/24.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/22.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/33.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/32.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/21.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/31.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/13.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/34.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-07-12/talkaoke-2009-05-28-host_session_9-part_2.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4205.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3967.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4206.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4169.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3969.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4160.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4217.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4183.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3949.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3970.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3966.ogv /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_3968.ogv thor:457$ cat last.txt /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2010-01-10/34.ogv thor:459$ stat /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4205.ogv File: `/home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05/mvi_4205.ogv' Size: 3161219 Blocks: 6184 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 187843284 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (67299/ hendry) Gid: (24839/pg224602) Access: 2009-07-17 17:45:50.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2009-01-05 05:41:32.000000000 -0800 Change: 2009-07-23 06:57:19.000000000 -0700 thor:460$ stat last.txt File: `last.txt' Size: 51 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 187260985 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: (67299/ hendry) Gid: (24839/pg224602) Access: 2010-03-08 01:07:08.000000000 -0800 Modify: 2010-10-20 06:56:42.000000000 -0700 Change: 2010-10-20 06:56:42.000000000 -0700 thor:461$ stat /home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05 File: `/home/hendry/static.natalian.org/2009-01-05' Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 187842583 Links: 2 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (67299/ hendry) Gid: (24839/pg224602) Access: 2009-07-17 18:06:41.000000000 -0700 Modify: 2009-01-05 05:41:32.000000000 -0800 Change: 2009-07-23 06:57:19.000000000 -0700 thor:463$ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered,commit=300) /dev/sda6 on /var/spool/cron/crontabs type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,data=writeback) none on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw)