On 9/20/05, Victor Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe 'find'. You can give it time arguments, so you can find files > created/modified today, yesterday, or between two given dates (I think?). If > you know where in the tree it is, then it will take less time, but if you > don't know, well, 'find / ' is always an option. > > This relies on the file having a useful timestamp (not a 10 years old file > transfered with 'scp -p', for instance). >
Yes, find is a good thing. I went and read the man page on it and got what I was looking for. The folling find command helped me get the damn thing. # find / -mtime -2 -print | less or for three days # find / -mtime -3 -print | less to find is good. jared